Thread (13 messages) flat view 13 messages, 3 authors, 2018-07-20

[PATCH] net: mediatek: use dma_zalloc_coherent instead of allocator/memset

From: linux@armlinux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
Date: 2018-07-19 14:17:46
Also in: linux-mediatek, lkml, netdev

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:09:55PM +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Use dma_zalloc_coherent instead of dma_alloc_coherent
followed by memset 0.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
index d8ebf0a..fbdb3e3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
@@ -1221,14 +1221,11 @@ static int mtk_tx_alloc(struct mtk_eth *eth)
 	if (!ring->buf)
 		goto no_tx_mem;
 
-	ring->dma = dma_alloc_coherent(eth->dev,
-					  MTK_DMA_SIZE * sz,
-					  &ring->phys,
-					  GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_ZERO);
+	ring->dma = dma_zalloc_coherent(eth->dev, MTK_DMA_SIZE * sz,
+					&ring->phys, GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_ZERO);
 	if (!ring->dma)
 		goto no_tx_mem;
 
-	memset(ring->dma, 0, MTK_DMA_SIZE * sz);
I have to wonder whether this code needs two forms of zeroing... in
the original code, __GFP_ZERO _and_ a call to memset() just in case
__GFP_ZERO failed to do its job, and in the replacement code, just
in case dma_zalloc_coherent() hasn't got the idea...

I think you can drop the __GFP_ZERO. ;)

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