This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/nouveau: use vmalloc for pgt allocation
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drm-nouveau-use-vmalloc-for-pgt-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From d005f51eb93d71cd40ebd11dd377453fa8c8a42a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcin Slusarz <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:50:30 +0200
Subject: drm/nouveau: use vmalloc for pgt allocation
From: Marcin Slusarz <[email protected]>
commit d005f51eb93d71cd40ebd11dd377453fa8c8a42a upstream.
Page tables on nv50 take 48kB, which can be hard to allocate in one piece.
Let's use vmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/vm/base.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/vm/base.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/vm/base.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ nouveau_vm_create(struct nouveau_vmmgr *
vm->fpde = offset >> (vmm->pgt_bits + 12);
vm->lpde = (offset + length - 1) >> (vmm->pgt_bits + 12);
- vm->pgt = kcalloc(vm->lpde - vm->fpde + 1, sizeof(*vm->pgt),
GFP_KERNEL);
+ vm->pgt = vzalloc((vm->lpde - vm->fpde + 1) * sizeof(*vm->pgt));
if (!vm->pgt) {
kfree(vm);
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ nouveau_vm_create(struct nouveau_vmmgr *
ret = nouveau_mm_init(&vm->mm, mm_offset >> 12, mm_length >> 12,
block >> 12);
if (ret) {
- kfree(vm->pgt);
+ vfree(vm->pgt);
kfree(vm);
return ret;
}
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ nouveau_vm_del(struct nouveau_vm *vm)
}
nouveau_mm_fini(&vm->mm);
- kfree(vm->pgt);
+ vfree(vm->pgt);
kfree(vm);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.10/drm-nouveau-use-vmalloc-for-pgt-allocation.patch
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