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parisc: remove obsolete manual allocation aligning

Message ID 2442384.MTfJ8ztCV8@eto.sf-tec.de (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Series parisc: remove obsolete manual allocation aligning | expand

Commit Message

Rolf Eike Beer Sept. 14, 2022, 2:23 p.m. UTC
kmalloc() returns memory with __assume_kmalloc_alignment, which is
__alignof__(unsigned long long) for parisc.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
---
 drivers/parisc/iosapic.c | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

I must confirm it's entirely untested.

Comments

Helge Deller Sept. 15, 2022, 5:34 a.m. UTC | #1
On 9/14/22 16:23, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> kmalloc() returns memory with __assume_kmalloc_alignment, which is
> __alignof__(unsigned long long) for parisc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>

applied.

Thanks!
Helge


> ---
>   drivers/parisc/iosapic.c | 11 +----------
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> I must confirm it's entirely untested.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/parisc/iosapic.c b/drivers/parisc/iosapic.c
> index 3a8c98615634..bdef7a8d6ab8 100644
> --- a/drivers/parisc/iosapic.c
> +++ b/drivers/parisc/iosapic.c
> @@ -221,16 +221,7 @@ static size_t irt_num_entry;
>
>   static struct irt_entry *iosapic_alloc_irt(int num_entries)
>   {
> -	unsigned long a;
> -
> -	/* The IRT needs to be 8-byte aligned for the PDC call.
> -	 * Normally kmalloc would guarantee larger alignment, but
> -	 * if CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is enabled, then we can get only
> -	 * 4-byte alignment on 32-bit kernels
> -	 */
> -	a = (unsigned long)kmalloc(sizeof(struct irt_entry) * num_entries + 8, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	a = (a + 7UL) & ~7UL;
> -	return (struct irt_entry *)a;
> +	return kcalloc(num_entries, sizeof(struct irt_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
>   }
>
>   /**
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diff --git a/drivers/parisc/iosapic.c b/drivers/parisc/iosapic.c
index 3a8c98615634..bdef7a8d6ab8 100644
--- a/drivers/parisc/iosapic.c
+++ b/drivers/parisc/iosapic.c
@@ -221,16 +221,7 @@  static size_t irt_num_entry;
 
 static struct irt_entry *iosapic_alloc_irt(int num_entries)
 {
-	unsigned long a;
-
-	/* The IRT needs to be 8-byte aligned for the PDC call. 
-	 * Normally kmalloc would guarantee larger alignment, but
-	 * if CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is enabled, then we can get only
-	 * 4-byte alignment on 32-bit kernels
-	 */
-	a = (unsigned long)kmalloc(sizeof(struct irt_entry) * num_entries + 8, GFP_KERNEL);
-	a = (a + 7UL) & ~7UL;
-	return (struct irt_entry *)a;
+	return kcalloc(num_entries, sizeof(struct irt_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 /**