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author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2013-10-11 13:11:38 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-10-16 18:29:07 -0700 |
commit | 64c862a839a8db2c02bbaa88b923d13e1208919d (patch) | |
tree | 0b3765aec1193c5040f8f840edd36876b7412dd5 /REPORTING-BUGS | |
parent | d723a92dd465d549bf79dd481c09d59f0be02936 (diff) | |
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devres: add kernel standard devm_k.alloc functions
Currently, devm_ managed memory only supports kzalloc.
Convert the devm_kzalloc implementation to devm_kmalloc and remove the
complete memset to 0 but still set the initial struct devres header and
whatever padding before data to 0.
Add the other normal alloc variants as static inlines with __GFP_ZERO
added to the gfp flag where appropriate:
devm_kzalloc
devm_kcalloc
devm_kmalloc_array
Add gfp.h to device.h for the newly added static inlines.
akpm: the current API forces us to replace kmalloc() with kzalloc() when
performing devm_ conversions. This adds a relatively minor overhead.
More significantly, it will defeat kmemcheck used-uninitialized checking,
and for a particular driver, losing used-uninitialised checking for their
core controlling data structures will significantly degrade kmemcheck
usefulness.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sangjung Woo <sangjung.woo@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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