Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 02/11] machine: make MemoryHotplugState accessible via the machine

[Markus Armbruster]

Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 06:57:32PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> [...]
>> > -    machine->device_memory = g_malloc(sizeof(*machine->device_memory));
>> > +    machine->device_memory = g_malloc0(sizeof(*machine->device_memory));
>> 
>> g_new0 since you are at it? :)
>
> Nice suggestion, but this was already merged.
>
> I think we have a Coccinelle script that should detect this?

Closest match is commit message b45c03f585e, referred to last in commit
bdd81addf40 (both predate scripts/coccinelle/).  However, that script
only rewrites patterns involving sizeof(T), such as

    g_malloc(sizeof(T) * n) -> g_new(T, n)

because those are obvious improvements.  It doesn't rewrite patterns
like

    T *v = g_malloc(sizeof(*v)) -> T *v = g_new(T, 1)

because whether those are improvements is debatable.

Feel free to apply them wherever you think they are enough of an
improvement to be worth the churn.  But I wouldn't apply them tree-write
without rough consensus "this is what we want going forward".