Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753190AbbHSIYU (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2015 04:24:20 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f179.google.com ([209.85.213.179]:33914 "EHLO mail-ig0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752764AbbHSIYS (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2015 04:24:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150819062219.GA10032@localhost> References: <20150819062219.GA10032@localhost> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:54:17 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: I8h2umu6QUnjvYsfvKYFswn0frE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: cpu_cooling: Remove usage of devm functions From: Viresh Kumar To: Vaishali Thakkar Cc: Zhang Rui , Eduardo Valentin , Linux PM list , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2660 Lines: 69 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Vaishali Thakkar wrote: > In the function cpufreq_get_requested_power, the memory allocated > for load_cpu is live within the function only. And after the > allocation it is immediately freed with devm_kfree. There is no > need to allocate memory for load_cpu with devm function so replace > devm_kcalloc with kcalloc and devm_kfree with kfree. > > Signed-off-by: Vaishali Thakkar > --- > This patch is having one checkpatch.pl warning which suggests that > kfree(NULL) is safe. But I think leaving code with if is nice > because it reflects the fact that kcalloc was under an if. So, I > have ignored checkpatch. If maintainer wants me to go for changing > things, I am fine with it too. I will rather ask you to do this: diff --git a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c index 620dcd405ff6..a04055ea5d94 100644 --- a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c +++ b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c @@ -584,8 +584,8 @@ static int cpufreq_get_requested_power(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev, if (trace_thermal_power_cpu_get_power_enabled()) { u32 ncpus = cpumask_weight(&cpufreq_device->allowed_cpus); - load_cpu = devm_kcalloc(&cdev->device, ncpus, sizeof(*load_cpu), - GFP_KERNEL); + load_cpu = kcalloc(&cdev->device, ncpus, sizeof(*load_cpu), + GFP_KERNEL); } for_each_cpu(cpu, &cpufreq_device->allowed_cpus) { @@ -607,22 +607,20 @@ static int cpufreq_get_requested_power(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev, dynamic_power = get_dynamic_power(cpufreq_device, freq); ret = get_static_power(cpufreq_device, tz, freq, &static_power); - if (ret) { - if (load_cpu) - devm_kfree(&cdev->device, load_cpu); - return ret; - } + if (ret) + goto free; - if (load_cpu) { + if (load_cpu) trace_thermal_power_cpu_get_power( &cpufreq_device->allowed_cpus, freq, load_cpu, i, dynamic_power, static_power); - devm_kfree(&cdev->device, load_cpu); - } - *power = static_power + dynamic_power; - return 0; + +free: + kfree(&cdev->device, load_cpu); + + return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/