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selftests/mm: Replace obsolete memalign() with posix_memalign()

Message ID 20230413012751.4445-1-wangdeming@inspur.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series selftests/mm: Replace obsolete memalign() with posix_memalign() | expand

Commit Message

Deming Wang April 13, 2023, 1:27 a.m. UTC
memalign() is obsolete according to its manpage.

Replace memalign() with posix_memalign().

As a pointer is passed into posix_memalign(),initialize *map to
NULL,to silence a warning about the function's return value being
used as uninitialized (which is not valid anyway because the
error is properly checked before map is returned).

Signed-off-by: Deming Wang <wangdeming@inspur.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Andrew Morton April 13, 2023, 10:11 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:27:51 -0400 Deming Wang <wangdeming@inspur.com> wrote:

> memalign() is obsolete according to its manpage.
> 
> Replace memalign() with posix_memalign().
> 
> As a pointer is passed into posix_memalign(),initialize *map to
> NULL,to silence a warning about the function's return value being
> used as uninitialized (which is not valid anyway because the
> error is properly checked before map is returned).
> 

The patch you sent doesn't do this?

> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c
> @@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ static void test_hugepage(int pagemap_fd, int pagesize)
>  	int i, ret;
>  	size_t hpage_len = read_pmd_pagesize();
>  
> -	map = memalign(hpage_len, hpage_len);
> -	if (!map)
> -		ksft_exit_fail_msg("memalign failed\n");
> +	ret = posix_memalign((void **)(&map), hpage_len, hpage_len);
> +	if (ret < 0)
> +		ksft_exit_fail_msg("posix_memalign failed\n");
>  
>  	ret = madvise(map, hpage_len, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
>  	if (ret)
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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c
index 21d8830c5f24..c99350e110ec 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@  static void test_hugepage(int pagemap_fd, int pagesize)
 	int i, ret;
 	size_t hpage_len = read_pmd_pagesize();
 
-	map = memalign(hpage_len, hpage_len);
-	if (!map)
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("memalign failed\n");
+	ret = posix_memalign((void **)(&map), hpage_len, hpage_len);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		ksft_exit_fail_msg("posix_memalign failed\n");
 
 	ret = madvise(map, hpage_len, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
 	if (ret)