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. James
