From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Guan Xuetao" <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: "Paul Mundt" <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unicore32 framebuffer driver fix: make videomemory kmalloc-ed and floatable
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:42:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103291642.49555.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <019701cbee1e$c4e2d260$4ea87720$@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
On Tuesday 29 March 2011, Guan Xuetao wrote:
>
> 1. make videomemory kmalloc-ed in fb-puv3.c
> 2. remove resource reservation for old fixed UNIGFX_MMAP & UVC_MMAP space
> 3. remove unused PKUNTIY_UNIGFX_MMAP_BASE, PKUNITY_UNIGFX_MMAP_SIZE,
> PKUNITY_UVC_MMAP_BASE, PKUNITY_UVC_MMAP_SIZE and KUSER_UNIGFX_BASE
> 4. remove unused header linux/vmalloc.h in fb-puv3.c
>
> Signed-off-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
How does this work? UNIFB_MEMSIZE seems to be 4 MB, much more than the
maximum of 128 KB that kmalloc can allocate.
Shouldn't this use get_free_pages() instead of kmalloc?
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-29 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-29 14:37 [PATCH] unicore32 framebuffer driver fix: make videomemory kmalloc-ed and floatable Guan Xuetao
2011-03-29 14:42 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-03-29 14:54 ` Guan Xuetao
2011-03-30 1:39 ` Guan Xuetao
2011-03-30 6:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 8:43 ` Guan Xuetao
2011-03-30 10:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
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