Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 5 authors, 2011-06-02

Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH next 12/15] video: Convert vmalloc/memset to

From: Mel Gorman <hidden>
Date: 2011-05-30 11:40:34
Also in: lkml, xen-devel

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:36:32AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
 drivers/video/arcfb.c        |    5 ++---
 drivers/video/broadsheetfb.c |    4 +---
 drivers/video/hecubafb.c     |    5 ++---
 drivers/video/metronomefb.c  |    4 +---
 drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c  |    3 +--
 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/arcfb.c b/drivers/video/arcfb.c
index 3ec4923..86573e2 100644
--- a/drivers/video/arcfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/arcfb.c
@@ -515,11 +515,10 @@ static int __devinit arcfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 
 	/* We need a flat backing store for the Arc's
 	   less-flat actual paged framebuffer */
-	if (!(videomemory = vmalloc(videomemorysize)))
+	videomemory = vmalloc(videomemorysize);
+	if (!videomemory)
 		return retval;
 
-	memset(videomemory, 0, videomemorysize);
-
 	info = framebuffer_alloc(sizeof(struct arcfb_par), &dev->dev);
 	if (!info)
 		goto err;
This is the first commit I saw and stopped reading at this point
because this hunk is not using vzalloc. I imagine grep for ^+ and
vmalloc throughout the series would be helpful?

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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