The slab for vm_area_struct which is vm_area_cachep is already prepared for the general use. Instead of kmalloc() for the vma copy for userptr, allocation from vm_area_cachep is more beneficial. CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> CC: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cho KyongHo <pullip.cho@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-memops.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-memops.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-memops.c index 81c1ad8..dd06efa 100644 --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-memops.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-memops.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vb2_get_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { struct vm_area_struct *vma_copy; - vma_copy = kmalloc(sizeof(*vma_copy), GFP_KERNEL); + vma_copy = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); if (vma_copy == NULL) return NULL; @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ void vb2_put_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma) if (vma->vm_file) fput(vma->vm_file); - kfree(vma); + kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vb2_put_vma); -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html