Thread (138 messages) 138 messages, 8 authors, 2015-05-27

Re: [PATCHv2 02/10] fbdev: ssd1307fb: Use vmalloc to allocate video memory.

From: Maxime Ripard <hidden>
Date: 2015-03-03 08:55:30
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Hi,

On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 11:27:55PM +0100, Thomas Niederprüm wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
It makes sense to use vmalloc to allocate the video buffer since it has to be
page aligned memory for using it with mmap. Also deffered io seems buggy in
combination with kmalloc'ed memory (crash on unloading the module).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Niederprüm <redacted>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
index 61e0ce8..25dd08d 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/i2c.h>
 #include <linux/fb.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/of_device.h>
 #include <linux/of_gpio.h>
 #include <linux/pwm.h>
@@ -489,7 +490,7 @@ static int ssd1307fb_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 
 	vmem_size = par->width * par->height / 8;
 
-	vmem = devm_kzalloc(&client->dev, vmem_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	vmem = vzalloc(vmem_size);
 	if (!vmem) {
 		dev_err(&client->dev, "Couldn't allocate graphical memory.\n");
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -559,6 +560,7 @@ panel_init_error:
 		par->ops->remove(par);
 reset_oled_error:
 	fb_deferred_io_cleanup(info);
+	vfree(vmem);
 fb_alloc_error:
 	framebuffer_release(info);
 	return ret;
Don't you need the vfree in the remove too?

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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