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Cohen David.A 1010ed1327 V4L/DVB (11840): change kmalloc to vmalloc for sglist allocation in videobuf_dma_map/unmap
Change kmalloc()/kfree() to vmalloc()/vfree() for sglist allocation
during videobuf_dma_map() and videobuf_dma_unmap()

High resolution sensors might require too many contiguous pages
to be allocated for sglist by kmalloc() during videobuf_dma_map()
(i.e. 256Kib for 8MP sensor).
In such situations, kmalloc() could face some problem to find the
required free memory. vmalloc() is a safer solution instead, as the
allocated memory does not need to be contiguous.

Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.cohen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-06-16 18:21:10 -03:00
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ABI Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2009-06-11 11:10:35 -07:00
accounting
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arm
auxdisplay
blackfin
block trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
blockdev
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cgroups
connector
console
cpu-freq
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development-process
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driver-model trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
dvb V4L/DVB (11488): get_dvb_firmware: trivial url change 2009-06-16 18:20:30 -03:00
early-userspace
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fb trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
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RCU trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
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sysctl trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
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timers trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
trace trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands 2009-06-12 18:01:51 +02:00
uml
usb trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc 2009-06-12 18:01:51 +02:00
video4linux V4L/DVB (11840): change kmalloc to vmalloc for sglist allocation in videobuf_dma_map/unmap 2009-06-16 18:21:10 -03:00
vm
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watchdog
wimax
x86 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mce3 2009-06-11 23:31:52 +02:00
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00-INDEX
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
bt8xxgpio.txt
BUG-HUNTING
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cachetlb.txt
Changes Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next 2009-06-14 14:12:18 -07:00
CodingStyle trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments. 2009-06-12 18:01:46 +02:00
cpu-hotplug.txt
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
credentials.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos 2009-06-12 18:01:50 +02:00
devices.txt
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DMA-attributes.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
DMA-mapping.txt
dmaengine.txt
dontdiff
dynamic-debug-howto.txt
edac.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
eisa.txt
email-clients.txt
exception.txt
feature-removal-schedule.txt Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-06-15 03:02:23 -07:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gpio.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
highuid.txt
HOWTO
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ics932s401
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Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
IO-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt
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IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
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kobject.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
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mca.txt
md.txt
memory-barriers.txt
memory-hotplug.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
memory.txt
mono.txt
mutex-design.txt
nmi_watchdog.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt
prio_tree.txt
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rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rt-mutex-design.txt
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
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serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
slow-work.txt
SM501.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
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sparse.txt
spinlocks.txt
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt
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tomoyo.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
VGA-softcursor.txt
video-output.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
voyager.txt
zorro.txt