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authorCohen David.A <david.cohen@nokia.com>2009-05-11 11:00:20 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2009-06-16 18:21:10 -0300
commit1010ed132727bbf486ac28fd149ccfb0ef5cd2ab (patch)
treeaa95ea2fb7cc5aec23c83ea650e8397a593d1c8d /drivers/media
parent04a37e0f32f9882430bc1899899d2ed91b8aaf5b (diff)
V4L/DVB (11840): change kmalloc to vmalloc for sglist allocation in videobuf_dma_map/unmap
Change kmalloc()/kfree() to vmalloc()/vfree() for sglist allocation during videobuf_dma_map() and videobuf_dma_unmap() High resolution sensors might require too many contiguous pages to be allocated for sglist by kmalloc() during videobuf_dma_map() (i.e. 256Kib for 8MP sensor). In such situations, kmalloc() could face some problem to find the required free memory. vmalloc() is a safer solution instead, as the allocated memory does not need to be contiguous. Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.cohen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/video/videobuf-dma-sg.c17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/videobuf-dma-sg.c b/drivers/media/video/videobuf-dma-sg.c
index da1790e57a8..c9a5d7edbe4 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/videobuf-dma-sg.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/videobuf-dma-sg.c
@@ -58,9 +58,10 @@ videobuf_vmalloc_to_sg(unsigned char *virt, int nr_pages)
struct page *pg;
int i;
- sglist = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(struct scatterlist), GFP_KERNEL);
+ sglist = vmalloc(nr_pages * sizeof(*sglist));
if (NULL == sglist)
return NULL;
+ memset(sglist, 0, nr_pages * sizeof(*sglist));
sg_init_table(sglist, nr_pages);
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++, virt += PAGE_SIZE) {
pg = vmalloc_to_page(virt);
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ videobuf_vmalloc_to_sg(unsigned char *virt, int nr_pages)
return sglist;
err:
- kfree(sglist);
+ vfree(sglist);
return NULL;
}
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ videobuf_pages_to_sg(struct page **pages, int nr_pages, int offset)
if (NULL == pages[0])
return NULL;
- sglist = kmalloc(nr_pages * sizeof(*sglist), GFP_KERNEL);
+ sglist = vmalloc(nr_pages * sizeof(*sglist));
if (NULL == sglist)
return NULL;
sg_init_table(sglist, nr_pages);
@@ -104,12 +105,12 @@ videobuf_pages_to_sg(struct page **pages, int nr_pages, int offset)
nopage:
dprintk(2,"sgl: oops - no page\n");
- kfree(sglist);
+ vfree(sglist);
return NULL;
highmem:
dprintk(2,"sgl: oops - highmem page\n");
- kfree(sglist);
+ vfree(sglist);
return NULL;
}
@@ -230,7 +231,7 @@ int videobuf_dma_map(struct videobuf_queue* q, struct videobuf_dmabuf *dma)
(dma->vmalloc,dma->nr_pages);
}
if (dma->bus_addr) {
- dma->sglist = kmalloc(sizeof(struct scatterlist), GFP_KERNEL);
+ dma->sglist = vmalloc(sizeof(*dma->sglist));
if (NULL != dma->sglist) {
dma->sglen = 1;
sg_dma_address(&dma->sglist[0]) = dma->bus_addr & PAGE_MASK;
@@ -248,7 +249,7 @@ int videobuf_dma_map(struct videobuf_queue* q, struct videobuf_dmabuf *dma)
if (0 == dma->sglen) {
printk(KERN_WARNING
"%s: videobuf_map_sg failed\n",__func__);
- kfree(dma->sglist);
+ vfree(dma->sglist);
dma->sglist = NULL;
dma->sglen = 0;
return -EIO;
@@ -274,7 +275,7 @@ int videobuf_dma_unmap(struct videobuf_queue* q,struct videobuf_dmabuf *dma)
dma_unmap_sg(q->dev, dma->sglist, dma->nr_pages, dma->direction);
- kfree(dma->sglist);
+ vfree(dma->sglist);
dma->sglist = NULL;
dma->sglen = 0;
return 0;