fbdev: ssd1307fb: Allocate page aligned video memory.
authorThomas Niederprüm <niederp@physik.uni-kl.de>
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:27:08 +0000 (20:27 +0200)
committerTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Wed, 27 May 2015 09:53:21 +0000 (12:53 +0300)
Currently the videomemory is allocated by kmalloc, making it a memory
region that is not necessarily page aligend. This leads to problems
upon mmap call, where the video memory's address gets aligned to the
next page boundary. The result is that the userspace program that issued
the mmap call is not able to access the video memory from the start to
the next page boundary.

This patch changes the allocation of the video memory to use
__get_free_pages() in order to obtain memory that is aligned
to page boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Niederprüm <niederp@physik.uni-kl.de>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c

index 61e0ce86650638ec32d8829b3ac9ede69526eb65..8d34c5651187f1ab4e75bdb511dccefd76f6b1d5 100644 (file)
@@ -489,7 +489,8 @@ 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 = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
+                                       get_order(vmem_size));
        if (!vmem) {
                dev_err(&client->dev, "Couldn't allocate graphical memory.\n");
                ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -573,6 +574,7 @@ static int ssd1307fb_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
        if (par->ops->remove)
                par->ops->remove(par);
        fb_deferred_io_cleanup(info);
+       __free_pages(__va(info->fix.smem_start), get_order(info->fix.smem_len));
        framebuffer_release(info);
 
        return 0;
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