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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2007-01-25 05:00:01 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2007-02-21 13:34:55 -0200
commitb50e7fe99317c05b0bb8ba6338bc6aa7da3b918e (patch)
tree32124766d993a7d65b49555f6f65a04508ecc318 /drivers/media/video/video-buf.c
parent52ebc763d8e0c9f2ab48af89a75e90e2318bac86 (diff)
V4L/DVB (5147): Make vivi driver to use vmalloced pointers
Before this patch, vivi were simulating a scatter gather DMA transfer. While this is academic, showing how stuff really works on a real PCI device, this means a non-optimized code. There are only two memory models that vivi implements: 1) kernel alloced memory. This is also used by read() method. On this case, a vmalloc32 buffer is allocated at kernel; 2) userspace allocated memory. This is used by most userspace apps. video-buf will store this pointer. a simple copy_to_user is enough to transfer data. The third memory model scenario supported by video-buf is overlay mode. This model is not implemented on vivi and unlikely to be implemented on newer drivers, since now, most userspace apps do some post-processing (like de-interlacing). After this patch, some cleanups may be done at video-buf.c to avoid allocating pages, when the driver doesn't need a PCI buffer. This is the case of vivi and usb drivers. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media/video/video-buf.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/video/video-buf.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/video-buf.c b/drivers/media/video/video-buf.c
index 6504a586684..459786ff459 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/video-buf.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/video-buf.c
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ int videobuf_dma_init_user(struct videobuf_dmabuf *dma, int direction,
dprintk(1,"init user [0x%lx+0x%lx => %d pages]\n",
data,size,dma->nr_pages);
+ dma->varea = (void *) data;
+
down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
err = get_user_pages(current,current->mm,
data & PAGE_MASK, dma->nr_pages,
@@ -285,6 +287,7 @@ int videobuf_dma_free(struct videobuf_dmabuf *dma)
vfree(dma->vmalloc);
dma->vmalloc = NULL;
+ dma->varea = NULL;
if (dma->bus_addr) {
dma->bus_addr = 0;