From b50e7fe99317c05b0bb8ba6338bc6aa7da3b918e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:00:01 -0300 Subject: 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 --- include/media/video-buf.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/media') diff --git a/include/media/video-buf.h b/include/media/video-buf.h index 1115a256969..d6f079476db 100644 --- a/include/media/video-buf.h +++ b/include/media/video-buf.h @@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ struct videobuf_dmabuf { /* for kernel buffers */ void *vmalloc; + /* Stores the userspace pointer to vmalloc area */ + void *varea; + /* for overlay buffers (pci-pci dma) */ dma_addr_t bus_addr; -- cgit v1.2.3