From b3218a79aa3d58b975b066c300153a8520f7051c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Slaby Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:15:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] char: kill unneeded memsets char, another tmp_buf cleanup No need to allocate one page as a side buffer. It's no more used. Clean this (de)allocs of this useless memory pages in char subtree. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/amiserial.c | 30 +----------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 29 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/char/amiserial.c') diff --git a/drivers/char/amiserial.c b/drivers/char/amiserial.c index d0e92ed0a36..486f97c3f4e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/amiserial.c +++ b/drivers/char/amiserial.c @@ -112,17 +112,6 @@ static struct serial_state rs_table[1]; #define NR_PORTS ARRAY_SIZE(rs_table) -/* - * tmp_buf is used as a temporary buffer by serial_write. We need to - * lock it in case the copy_from_user blocks while swapping in a page, - * and some other program tries to do a serial write at the same time. - * Since the lock will only come under contention when the system is - * swapping and available memory is low, it makes sense to share one - * buffer across all the serial ports, since it significantly saves - * memory if large numbers of serial ports are open. - */ -static unsigned char *tmp_buf; - #include #define serial_isroot() (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) @@ -912,7 +901,7 @@ static int rs_write(struct tty_struct * tty, const unsigned char *buf, int count if (serial_paranoia_check(info, tty->name, "rs_write")) return 0; - if (!info->xmit.buf || !tmp_buf) + if (!info->xmit.buf) return 0; local_save_flags(flags); @@ -1778,7 +1767,6 @@ static int rs_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * filp) { struct async_struct *info; int retval, line; - unsigned long page; line = tty->index; if ((line < 0) || (line >= NR_PORTS)) { @@ -1798,17 +1786,6 @@ static int rs_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * filp) #endif info->tty->low_latency = (info->flags & ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY) ? 1 : 0; - if (!tmp_buf) { - page = get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); - if (!page) { - return -ENOMEM; - } - if (tmp_buf) - free_page(page); - else - tmp_buf = (unsigned char *) page; - } - /* * If the port is the middle of closing, bail out now */ @@ -2090,11 +2067,6 @@ static __exit void rs_exit(void) kfree(info); } - if (tmp_buf) { - free_page((unsigned long) tmp_buf); - tmp_buf = NULL; - } - release_mem_region(CUSTOM_PHYSADDR+0x30, 4); } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2