On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 07:35 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 09:18 -0400, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: >> > memory allocation in drm_bufs.c is followed by initializing the memory with 0. >> > >> > Replace the use of kmalloc+memset with kzalloc. >> >> Perhaps kzalloc's with a multiply could/should also be converted >> to kcalloc. >> >> > + entry->buflist = kzalloc(count * sizeof(*entry->buflist), GFP_KERNEL); >> >> entry->buflist = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*entry->buflist), GFP_KERNEL); >> >> etc. >> >> > + entry->buflist = kzalloc(count * sizeof(*entry->buflist), GFP_KERNEL); >> > + entry->seglist = kzalloc(count * sizeof(*entry->seglist), GFP_KERNEL); >> > + entry->buflist = kzalloc(count * sizeof(*entry->buflist), >> > + entry->buflist = kzalloc(count * sizeof(*entry->buflist), >> > > Doable, but don't see much difference. David, what do you think? kcalloc does an integer overflow check, plus it's nice to be explicit about allocating a number of elements of a certain size in the API. Kristian _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
