From patchwork Fri Jul 14 07:49:44 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Thomas Zimmermann X-Patchwork-Id: 13313208 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF0FEB64DA for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:53:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235860AbjGNHxQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2023 03:53:16 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45946 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235568AbjGNHwI (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2023 03:52:08 -0400 Received: from smtp-out1.suse.de (smtp-out1.suse.de [195.135.220.28]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D58523588; Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-out1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83D7622163; Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:52:04 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.de; s=susede2_rsa; t=1689321124; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=fjE7evrec+6fTNNO2iEP5O884klzqzhDg9Mgv82xETg=; b=Lh7vIr6ckxc/iABjsJgQyPX2+F649Ga1fLcw+t6ynF0XPltSHJcY7keOXADImMc/dbsXKp xyUOTHFD9ZSU9WbwlNosGPDYqOHjdKPKebwbu8snAFn0N1/u3gpsb9A2fV2S9P5gnWwuAA c11Id3xw4wVOPXXYVUeNCX9YszdHQ3s= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.de; s=susede2_ed25519; t=1689321124; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=fjE7evrec+6fTNNO2iEP5O884klzqzhDg9Mgv82xETg=; b=QGMxHCNv2iIjqPsDqSpcZCEXodf5ZsEvU0z7mPx0TmyWW116Sni3xmSwhsAgfcnLkU6nOS SUzZMqMdOAUlo3Bw== Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D2A413A15; Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:52:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dovecot-director2.suse.de ([192.168.254.65]) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de with ESMTPSA id sM0TCqT+sGQCQwAAMHmgww (envelope-from ); Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:52:04 +0000 From: Thomas Zimmermann To: deller@gmx.de, javierm@redhat.com Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-geode@lists.infradead.org, linux-nvidia@lists.surfsouth.com, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Zimmermann , Miguel Ojeda Subject: [PATCH v3 18/18] fbdev: Document that framebuffer_alloc() returns zero'ed data Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:49:44 +0200 Message-ID: <20230714075155.5686-19-tzimmermann@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.41.0 In-Reply-To: <20230714075155.5686-1-tzimmermann@suse.de> References: <20230714075155.5686-1-tzimmermann@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Most fbdev drivers depend on framebuffer_alloc() to initialize the allocated memory to 0. Document this guarantee. v3: * slightly reword the sentence (Miguel) Suggested-by: Miguel Ojeda Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Helge Deller Reviewed-by: Sui Jingfeng --- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c index 8bdbefdd4b70..4847ebe50d7d 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ * * Creates a new frame buffer info structure. Also reserves @size bytes * for driver private data (info->par). info->par (if any) will be - * aligned to sizeof(long). + * aligned to sizeof(long). The new instances of struct fb_info and + * the driver private data are both cleared to zero. * * Returns the new structure, or NULL if an error occurred. *