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authorJes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>2015-05-05 18:36:29 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-05-08 15:26:03 +0200
commitc37df5f0a0e31b1609fd931f8605f4b675d504d3 (patch)
tree27c12b9cc31feb8f212e684d922544722db37a94 /drivers/staging
parent1dbdf10471cec85f8ea036d609097552eb0ac441 (diff)
staging: unisys: visorchannel_clear(): No need to use vmalloc here
Using a page is sufficient, and avoids the cost of vmalloc/vfree Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchannel.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchannel.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchannel.c
index e555476be54d..1a1e7be6369c 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);