The patch titled
Subject: mm/damon/dbgfs: use kmalloc for allocating only one element
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-damon-dbgfs-use-kmalloc-for-allocating-only-one-element.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-damon-dbgfs-use-kmalloc-for-allocating-only-one-element.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Kenneth Lee <klee33@xxxxxx>
Subject: mm/damon/dbgfs: use kmalloc for allocating only one element
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 15:00:19 -0700
Use kmalloc(...) rather than kmalloc_array(1, ...) because the number of
elements we are specifying in this case is 1, kmalloc would accomplish the
same thing and we can simplify.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220808220019.1680469-1-klee33@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lee <klee33@xxxxxx>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/damon/dbgfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/damon/dbgfs.c~mm-damon-dbgfs-use-kmalloc-for-allocating-only-one-element
+++ a/mm/damon/dbgfs.c
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ static int __init __damon_dbgfs_init(voi
fops[i]);
dbgfs_fill_ctx_dir(dbgfs_root, dbgfs_ctxs[0]);
- dbgfs_dirs = kmalloc_array(1, sizeof(dbgfs_root), GFP_KERNEL);
+ dbgfs_dirs = kmalloc(sizeof(dbgfs_root), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dbgfs_dirs) {
debugfs_remove(dbgfs_root);
return -ENOMEM;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from klee33@xxxxxx are
mm-damon-dbgfs-use-kmalloc-for-allocating-only-one-element.patch
