Hi,
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 11:27:55PM +0100, Thomas Niederprüm wrote:
> It makes sense to use vmalloc to allocate the video buffer since it has to be
> page aligned memory for using it with mmap. Also deffered io seems buggy in
> combination with kmalloc'ed memory (crash on unloading the module).
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Niederprüm <niederp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
> index 61e0ce8..25dd08d 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> #include <linux/i2c.h>
> #include <linux/fb.h>
> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> #include <linux/of_device.h>
> #include <linux/of_gpio.h>
> #include <linux/pwm.h>
> @@ -489,7 +490,7 @@ 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 = vzalloc(vmem_size);
> if (!vmem) {
> dev_err(&client->dev, "Couldn't allocate graphical memory.\n");
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> @@ -559,6 +560,7 @@ panel_init_error:
> par->ops->remove(par);
> reset_oled_error:
> fb_deferred_io_cleanup(info);
> + vfree(vmem);
> fb_alloc_error:
> framebuffer_release(info);
> return ret;
Don't you need the vfree in the remove too?
Maxime
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