[PATCH 2/3] ath10k: use dma_zalloc_coherent()

Valo, Kalle kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Mon Jan 23 21:18:49 PST 2017


Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 15:04 +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>> use dma_zalloc_coherent() instead of dma_alloc_coherent and memset().
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
> []
>> @@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static int ath10k_pci_diag_read_mem(struct ath10k *ar, u32 address, void *data,
>>  	 */
>>  	alloc_nbytes = min_t(unsigned int, nbytes, DIAG_TRANSFER_LIMIT);
>>  
>> -	data_buf = (unsigned char *)dma_alloc_coherent(ar->dev,
>> +	data_buf = (unsigned char *)dma_zalloc_coherent(ar->dev,
>>  						       alloc_nbytes,
>>  						       &ce_data_base,
>>  						       GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> trivia:
>
> Nicer to realign arguments and remove the unnecessary cast.
>
> Perhaps:
>
> 	data_buf = dma_zalloc_coherent(ar->dev, alloc_nbytes, &ce_data_base,
> 				       GFP_ATOMIC);

Sure, but that should be in a separate patch.

-- 
Kalle Valo


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