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authorHavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@google.com>2012-04-26 11:16:00 -0700
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-04-27 16:03:40 +0200
commitd4f0e4daf0d867f80c78ca4f9ac03a562e229e72 (patch)
tree2a370bb114f8d4e1a66a69f7d3dcdcef3cc3b716 /drivers/hid
parent9f1f463ae5d8597fe2b4ffc73051616c47ac1924 (diff)
downloadlinux-d4f0e4daf0d867f80c78ca4f9ac03a562e229e72.tar.bz2
HID: hiddev: Use vzalloc to allocate hiddev_list
Everytime a HID device is opened, a new hiddev_list is allocated with kzalloc. This requires 64KB of physically contiguous memory, which could easily push a heavily loaded system over the edge. Allocating the same amount of memory with vmalloc shouldn't be nearly as demanding, so let's do that instead. The memory isn't used for DMA and doesn't look particularly performance sensitive, so this should be safe. Signed-off-by: Havard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hid')
-rw-r--r--drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c
index b1ec0e2aeb57..14599e256791 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include <linux/hid.h>
#include <linux/hiddev.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include "usbhid.h"
#ifdef CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS
@@ -250,13 +251,13 @@ static int hiddev_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
} else {
mutex_unlock(&list->hiddev->existancelock);
kfree(list->hiddev);
- kfree(list);
+ vfree(list);
return 0;
}
}
mutex_unlock(&list->hiddev->existancelock);
- kfree(list);
+ vfree(list);
return 0;
}
@@ -278,7 +279,7 @@ static int hiddev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
hid = usb_get_intfdata(intf);
hiddev = hid->hiddev;
- if (!(list = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hiddev_list), GFP_KERNEL)))
+ if (!(list = vzalloc(sizeof(struct hiddev_list))))
return -ENOMEM;
mutex_init(&list->thread_lock);
list->hiddev = hiddev;
@@ -322,7 +323,7 @@ bail_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&hiddev->existancelock);
bail:
file->private_data = NULL;
- kfree(list);
+ vfree(list);
return res;
}