Console driver allocates a screenbuffer with kmalloc(). The size of the buffer can be up to 32768 bytes which is the 3rd memory order.
Use kvmalloc() for screenbuffer allocation to fallback to vmalloc() in case of high order page is not available at the moment. https://jira.sw.ru/browse/HCI-53 Signed-off-by: Oleg Babin <oba...@virtuozzo.com> --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index b49abe5..bedf467 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ int vc_allocate(unsigned int currcons) /* return 0 on success */ visual_init(vc, currcons, 1); if (!*vc->vc_uni_pagedir_loc) con_set_default_unimap(vc); - vc->vc_screenbuf = kmalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL); + vc->vc_screenbuf = kvmalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!vc->vc_screenbuf) { kfree(vc); vc_cons[currcons].d = NULL; @@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc, if (new_screen_size > (4 << 20)) return -EINVAL; - newscreen = kmalloc(new_screen_size, GFP_USER); + newscreen = kvmalloc(new_screen_size, GFP_USER); if (!newscreen) return -ENOMEM; @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc, err = resize_screen(vc, new_cols, new_rows, user); if (err) { - kfree(newscreen); + kvfree(newscreen); return err; } @@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc, if (new_scr_end > new_origin) scr_memsetw((void *)new_origin, vc->vc_video_erase_char, new_scr_end - new_origin); - kfree(vc->vc_screenbuf); + kvfree(vc->vc_screenbuf); vc->vc_screenbuf = newscreen; vc->vc_screenbuf_size = new_screen_size; set_origin(vc); @@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ struct vc_data *vc_deallocate(unsigned int currcons) vc->vc_sw->con_deinit(vc); put_pid(vc->vt_pid); module_put(vc->vc_sw->owner); - kfree(vc->vc_screenbuf); + kvfree(vc->vc_screenbuf); vc_cons[currcons].d = NULL; } return vc; -- 1.8.3.1 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel