RE: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/fnic/fnic_trace.c: Use vzalloc

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: James Bottomley
> Sent: 13 November 2018 16:11
> 
> On Tue, 2018-11-13 at 16:53 +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > On 13/11/2018 16:44, John Garry wrote:
> > > On 13/11/2018 15:08, Sabyasachi Gupta wrote:
> [...]
> > > > -    fnic_trace_buf_p = (unsigned long)vmalloc((trace_max_pages *
> > > > PAGE_SIZE));
> > > > +    fnic_trace_buf_p = (unsigned long)vzalloc((trace_max_pages *
> > > > +                                PAGE_SIZE));
> > >
> > > If you remove the extra brackets in vzalloc() argument then you may
> > > not spill onto the next line.
> >
> > And remove the unnecessary cast. vzalloc() (just like vmalloc())
> > returns a void*, so no reason to cast it.
> 
> This is incorrect advice: there's no need to cast it to other *pointer*
> types, but if you cast it to a non-pointer type (which this is doing)
> the compiler will complain if there is no explicit cast.

The real question is why is this code using 'unsigned long'
to hold pointers?

Never mind why it is allocating a large memory block then setting
up another array with pointers to every 64 bytes down it.

Also why default to 16 * PAGE_SIZE - that is silly if pages are big.

	David

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