[PATCH] crypto: amlogic - Save a few bytes of memory

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr
Tue Nov 22 14:26:14 PST 2022


Le 22/11/2022 à 23:02, Martin Blumenstingl a écrit :
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 10:57 PM Christophe JAILLET
> <christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>
>> There is no real point in allocating dedicated memory for the irqs array.
>> MAXFLOW is only 2, so it is easier to allocated the needed space
>> directly within the 'meson_dev' structure.
>>
>> This saves some memory allocation and avoids an indirection when using the
>> irqs array.
> ..and it even fixes a missing devm_kcalloc error check
> 
> Personally I prefer this approach over a patch that was sent earlier today: [0]

Funny.
A file untouched for about 18 months and 2 patches around the same line, 
... the same day!

> Corentin, Christophe, what do you think?

Obviously, mine is better :)

More seriously, I think it is mostly a mater of taste and that both are 
fine. Neither one will make a real difference IRL.

I guess that memory allocation failure in probe are unlikely and saving 
64 bytes (40 for devm_ + 2 x 4 = 48, rounded to 64 bytes) won't make any 
real difference.

Up to you.

CJ
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/0df30bbf-3b7e-ed20-e316-41192bf3cc2b@linaro.org/T/#m6a45b44206c282f106d379b01d19027823c5d79b
> 




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