[PATCH 4/20] arch/arm/mach-davinci: Use kzalloc

Kevin Hilman khilman at deeprootsystems.com
Fri May 14 11:16:04 EDT 2010


Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk> writes:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk>
>
> Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset.
>
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,size,flags;
> statement S;
> @@
>
> -x = kmalloc(size,flags);
> +x = kzalloc(size,flags);
>  if (x == NULL) S
> -memset(x, 0, size);
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk>

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at deeprootsystems.com>



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