[lustre-devel] [PATCH 03/15] staging: lustre: replace simple cases of LIBCFS_ALLOC with kzalloc.

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Jan 8 06:51:57 PST 2018


On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:46:30AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> All usages of the form
>   LIBCFS_ALLOC(variable, sizeof(variable))
> or
>   LIBCFS_ALLOC(variable, sizeof(variable's-type))
> 
> are changed to
>   variable = kzalloc(sizeof(...), GFP_NOFS);
> 
> Similarly, all
>    LIBCFS_FREE(variable, sizeof(variable))
> become
>    kfree(variable);
> 
> None of these need the vmalloc option, or any of the other minor
> benefits of LIBCFS_ALLOC().
> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.com>

As this broke the kbuild system, I'll stop here in this patch series.
Can you please fix it up, rebase and resend the remaining ones in this
series?

thanks,

greg k-h


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