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authorBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-09-13 11:22:51 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-09-20 15:53:24 +1000
commitac07a4a57f7408922a0b3d4dcb87104fe8a3d8ca (patch)
treea3eede543ce5d626a34066c2690bff6c4568df8b /drivers/tty
parent8bdafa39a47265bc029838b35cc6585f69224afa (diff)
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hvcs: Ensure page aligned partner info buffer
The Power platform requires the partner info buffer to be page aligned otherwise it will fail the partner info hcall with H_PARAMETER. Switch from using kmalloc to allocate this buffer to __get_free_page to ensure page alignment. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
index 4c8b66546930..39291665eca3 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
@@ -1532,7 +1532,7 @@ static int __devinit hvcs_initialize(void)
goto register_fail;
}
- hvcs_pi_buff = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ hvcs_pi_buff = (unsigned long *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hvcs_pi_buff) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto buff_alloc_fail;
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ static int __devinit hvcs_initialize(void)
return 0;
kthread_fail:
- kfree(hvcs_pi_buff);
+ free_page((unsigned long)hvcs_pi_buff);
buff_alloc_fail:
tty_unregister_driver(hvcs_tty_driver);
register_fail:
@@ -1597,7 +1597,7 @@ static void __exit hvcs_module_exit(void)
kthread_stop(hvcs_task);
spin_lock(&hvcs_pi_lock);
- kfree(hvcs_pi_buff);
+ free_page((unsigned long)hvcs_pi_buff);
hvcs_pi_buff = NULL;
spin_unlock(&hvcs_pi_lock);