[PATCH] dma-buf: Remove unnecessary kmalloc() cast

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 8:15 AM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 7:34 AM Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 09:13:35 +0200 Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
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> > > yes that is
> > > intentionally a define and not an inline function.
> > >
> > > See this patch here which changed that:
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> > > commit 2c321f3f70bc284510598f712b702ce8d60c4d14
> > > Author: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
> > > Date:   Sun Apr 14 19:07:31 2024 -0700
> > >
> > >      mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site
> >
> > Dang, yes, that was a regrettable change.  But hardly the end of the
> > world.  I do think each such alteration should have included a comment
> > to prevent people from going and cleaning them up.
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> Sorry I missed this discussion. Yes, the definition was intentional
> and I will add comments for all the cases which were changed this way.

Posted https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240703174225.3891393-1-surenb@google.com/
adding clarifying comments.
Thanks,
Suren.

> Thanks,
> Suren.
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