Scrollback frame buffer is rather big - 32K,
so it requires 3rd order page, so let's use kvmalloc() instead of
ordinary kmalloc() for it.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
index 8958ccc8b1ac..2b1a34d3f5e2 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
@@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ static const char *fbcon_startup(void)
if (!softback_buf) {
softback_buf =
(unsigned long)
- kmalloc(fbcon_softback_size,
+ kvmalloc(fbcon_softback_size,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!softback_buf) {
fbcon_softback_size = 0;
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ static const char *fbcon_startup(void)
}
} else {
if (softback_buf) {
- kfree((void *) softback_buf);
+ kvfree((void *) softback_buf);
softback_buf = 0;
softback_top = 0;
}
@@ -3665,7 +3665,7 @@ static void fbcon_exit(void)
}
#endif
- kfree((void *)softback_buf);
+ kvfree((void *)softback_buf);
softback_buf = 0UL;
for_each_registered_fb(i) {
--
2.15.1
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