[PATCH 5/5] arch: simplify several early memory allocations

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Nov 26 19:21:34 AEDT 2018


>  static void __init *early_alloc_aligned(unsigned long sz, unsigned long align)
>  {
> -	void *ptr = __va(memblock_phys_alloc(sz, align));
> -	memset(ptr, 0, sz);
> -	return ptr;
> +	return memblock_alloc(sz, align);
>  }

What is the point of keeping this wrapper?

>  static void __init *early_alloc(unsigned long sz)
>  {
> -	void *ptr = __va(memblock_phys_alloc(sz, sz));
> -	memset(ptr, 0, sz);
> -	return ptr;
> +	return memblock_alloc(sz, sz);
>  }

Same here.


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