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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2007-05-06 15:12:54 +0200
committerArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2007-07-18 15:53:08 +0200
commit92ad8f37509a7d9d5dd6e0092211b092a7ca7fb1 (patch)
tree96c0f9c524b80e8d1d247e3f462c0c0d6fb782a5 /drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
parentUBI: add few more comments (diff)
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UBI: use vmalloc for large buffers
UBI allocates temporary buffers of PEB size, which may be 256KiB. Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc for such big temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
index 959044a2ddbf..34375ee6d4a4 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static int vol_cdev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
ubi_warn("update of volume %d not finished, volume is damaged",
vol->vol_id);
vol->updating = 0;
- kfree(vol->upd_buf);
+ vfree(vol->upd_buf);
}
ubi_close_volume(desc);
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static ssize_t vol_cdev_read(struct file *file, __user char *buf, size_t count,
tbuf_size = vol->usable_leb_size;
if (count < tbuf_size)
tbuf_size = ALIGN(count, ubi->min_io_size);
- tbuf = kmalloc(tbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ tbuf = vmalloc(tbuf_size);
if (!tbuf)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static ssize_t vol_cdev_read(struct file *file, __user char *buf, size_t count,
len = count > tbuf_size ? tbuf_size : count;
} while (count);
- kfree(tbuf);
+ vfree(tbuf);
return err ? err : count_save - count;
}
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ static ssize_t vol_cdev_direct_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
tbuf_size = vol->usable_leb_size;
if (count < tbuf_size)
tbuf_size = ALIGN(count, ubi->min_io_size);
- tbuf = kmalloc(tbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ tbuf = vmalloc(tbuf_size);
if (!tbuf)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static ssize_t vol_cdev_direct_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
len = count > tbuf_size ? tbuf_size : count;
}
- kfree(tbuf);
+ vfree(tbuf);
return err ? err : count_save - count;
}