[PATCH 6/8] clk: ppc-corenet: Replace kzalloc() with kmalloc()
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Feb 25 12:17:21 AEDT 2015
On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 04:09 -0600, Emil Medve wrote:
> Where the memset() is not necessary
>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve at Freescale.com>
> ---
> drivers/clk/clk-ppc-corenet.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-ppc-corenet.c b/drivers/clk/clk-ppc-corenet.c
> index d84a7f0..91816b1 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk-ppc-corenet.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-ppc-corenet.c
> @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static void __init core_pll_init(struct device_node *np)
> if (!subclks)
> goto err_map;
>
> - onecell_data = kzalloc(sizeof(*onecell_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> + onecell_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*onecell_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!onecell_data)
> goto err_clks;
>
I think it's better to use kzalloc always, outside of
performance-sensitive allocations. E.g. what if a new field is added to
the struct later?
-Scott
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