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SubjectRe: [PATCH] unicore32 framebuffer driver fix: make videomemory kmalloc-ed and floatable
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On Wednesday 30 March 2011 03:39:26 Guan Xuetao wrote:
> > How does this work? UNIFB_MEMSIZE seems to be 4 MB, much more than the
> > maximum of 128 KB that kmalloc can allocate.
> >
> > Shouldn't this use get_free_pages() instead of kmalloc?
> >
>
> When using SLUB allocator, if required memory size is larger
> than 2*PAGE_SIZE, kmalloc_large is called,
> and eventually __get_free_pages will be called.
> So, it would be the same as __get_free_pages.

Ok, I see. It's probably still better to use __get_free_pages directly,
because it's possible to select a different allocator that does not
do this itself.

Arnd


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