[PATCH 1/2] ARM: dma-mapping: its array of pointer

Tixy tixy at yxit.co.uk
Sat Feb 18 10:48:06 EST 2012


On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 18:39 +0530, Ajeet Yadav wrote:
> To be consistant with declaration and usage of
        ^^^^^^^^^^
Spelling mistake, should be 'consistent'

> consistent_pte it need to be an array of (pte *)
                    ^^^^
Grammar mistake, should be 'needs'.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77 at gmail.com>

The title of this patch is a bit vague, perhaps something like:
"ARM: dma-mapping: Fix the type used for consistent_pte size
calculation"

The actual patch looks correct.

-- 
Tixy

> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> index 1aa664a..04bfa76 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static int __init consistent_init(void)
>  	unsigned long base = consistent_base;
>  	unsigned long num_ptes = (CONSISTENT_END - base) >> PMD_SHIFT;
>  
> -	consistent_pte = kmalloc(num_ptes * sizeof(pte_t), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	consistent_pte = kmalloc(num_ptes * sizeof(pte_t *), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!consistent_pte) {
>  		pr_err("%s: no memory\n", __func__);
>  		return -ENOMEM;






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