On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 06:11:50PM +0100, Thomas Niederprüm wrote: > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks! Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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