From: Jes Sorensen <jes.soren...@redhat.com>
Using a page is sufficient, and avoids the cost of vmalloc/vfree
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes.soren...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.ro...@unisys.com>
---
drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchannel.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchannel.c
b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchannel.c
index e555476..1a1e7be 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchannel.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchannel.c
@@ -214,17 +214,18 @@ visorchannel_clear(struct visorchannel *channel, ulong
offset, u8 ch,
ulong nbytes)
{
int err;
- int bufsize = 65536;
+ int bufsize = PAGE_SIZE;
int written = 0;
u8 *buf;
- buf = vmalloc(bufsize);
+ buf = (u8 *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
memset(buf, ch, bufsize);
+
while (nbytes > 0) {
- ulong thisbytes = bufsize;
+ int thisbytes = bufsize;
if (nbytes < thisbytes)
thisbytes = nbytes;
@@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ visorchannel_clear(struct visorchannel *channel, ulong
offset, u8 ch,
err = 0;
cleanup:
- vfree(buf);
+ free_page((unsigned long) buf);
return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(visorchannel_clear);
--
2.1.4
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