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Subject: Re: [PATCH ipmi/kcs_bmc v1] ipmi: kcs_bmc: optimize the data buffers
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From:   Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
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On 04/03/2018 01:00 AM, Wang, Haiyue wrote:
> Hi Corey,
>
> The 4.17 merge window is opened now, this patch is not yet in 
> linux-next tree,
>
> so it will be merged into 4.18 ?
>

Yeah, this came in kind of late, and I had some other critical
things I was having to focus on, so I've been kind of out of the loop.

If it's urgent, I can work on getting it into 4.17 later, but I'd rather
wait on 4.18.

-corey

> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Haiyue
>
> On 2018-03-15 20:20, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>> Allocate a continuous memory block for the three KCS data buffers with
>> related index assignment.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c | 10 ++++++----
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
>> index fbfc05e..dc19c0d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
>> @@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ static const struct file_operations kcs_bmc_fops = {
>>   struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc_alloc(struct device *dev, int sizeof_priv, 
>> u32 channel)
>>   {
>>       struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc;
>> +    void *buf;
>>         kcs_bmc = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*kcs_bmc) + sizeof_priv, 
>> GFP_KERNEL);
>>       if (!kcs_bmc)
>> @@ -448,11 +449,12 @@ struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc_alloc(struct device 
>> *dev, int sizeof_priv, u32 channel)
>>       mutex_init(&kcs_bmc->mutex);
>>       init_waitqueue_head(&kcs_bmc->queue);
>>   -    kcs_bmc->data_in = devm_kmalloc(dev, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
>> -    kcs_bmc->data_out = devm_kmalloc(dev, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
>> -    kcs_bmc->kbuffer = devm_kmalloc(dev, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
>> -    if (!kcs_bmc->data_in || !kcs_bmc->data_out || !kcs_bmc->kbuffer)
>> +    buf = devm_kmalloc_array(dev, 3, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +    if (!buf)
>>           return NULL;
>> +    kcs_bmc->data_in  = buf;
>> +    kcs_bmc->data_out = buf + KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ;
>> +    kcs_bmc->kbuffer  = buf + KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ * 2;
>>         kcs_bmc->miscdev.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR;
>>       kcs_bmc->miscdev.name = dev_name(dev);
>