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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.15-rc4 1/1] cpia: use vm_insert_page() instead of remap_pfn_range()
Nick Holloway wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:10:12PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>>> pos = (unsigned long)(cam->frame_buf);
>>> while (size > 0) {
>>>- page = vmalloc_to_pfn((void *)pos);
>>>- if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED)) {
>>>+ page = vmalloc_to_page((void *)pos);
>>>+ if (vm_insert_page(vma, start, page)) {
>>
>>it would be nicer to do the arithmetis on pos as pointers rather than unsigned
>>long. Also you might want to use alloc_pages + vmap instead of vmalloc so that
>>you already have a page array. Or we should provide a helper that walks over
>>a vmalloc'ed region and calls vmalloc_to_page + vm_insert_page. Either way
>>this type of code is duplicated far too much and we'd really need some better
>>interface for it.
>
>
> As I said in my previous mail, the patch was just switching to use
> vm_insert_page, and not any other cleanups.
>
> I agree that a helper is a good idea, as the vmalloc, SetPageReserved,
> remap_pfn_range (was remap_page_range in 2.4) pattern has been copied
> and pasted across many video4linux drivers.
>
> The cpia driver could do with other cleanups.
>
> - It doesn't have a sysfs release callback (so says warning printk).
> - The colourspace conversion has been disabled, but should be
> ripped out.
> - Needs to support V4L2 API
>

- remove the last traces of rvmalloc (which is an oft repeated code
sequence in drivers, means something like vmalloc + SetPageReserved)

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