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vt: drop bootmem/slab memory distinction
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Bootmem is not used for the vt screen buffer anymore as slab is now
available at the time the console is initialized.

Get rid of the now superfluous distinction between slab and bootmem,
it's always slab.

This also fixes a kmalloc leak which Catalin described thusly:

Commit a5f4f52 ("vt: use kzalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator")
replaced the alloc_bootmem() with kzalloc() but didn't set vc_kmalloced to
1 and the memory block is later leaked.  The corresponding kmemleak trace:

unreferenced object 0xdf828000 (size 8192):
  comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294937296
  backtrace:
    [<c006d473>] __save_stack_trace+0x17/0x1c
    [<c000d869>] log_early+0x55/0x84
    [<c01cfa4b>] kmemleak_alloc+0x33/0x3c
    [<c006c013>] __kmalloc+0xd7/0xe4
    [<c00108c7>] con_init+0xbf/0x1b8
    [<c0010149>] console_init+0x11/0x20
    [<c0008797>] start_kernel+0x137/0x1e4

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Johannes Weiner authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 16, 2009
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12 changes: 3 additions & 9 deletions drivers/char/vt.c
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Expand Up @@ -770,14 +770,12 @@ int vc_allocate(unsigned int currcons) /* return 0 on success */
visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
if (!*vc->vc_uni_pagedir_loc)
con_set_default_unimap(vc);
if (!vc->vc_kmalloced)
vc->vc_screenbuf = kmalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
vc->vc_screenbuf = kmalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vc->vc_screenbuf) {
kfree(vc);
vc_cons[currcons].d = NULL;
return -ENOMEM;
}
vc->vc_kmalloced = 1;
vc_init(vc, vc->vc_rows, vc->vc_cols, 1);
vcs_make_sysfs(currcons);
atomic_notifier_call_chain(&vt_notifier_list, VT_ALLOCATE, &param);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -913,10 +911,8 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc,
if (new_scr_end > new_origin)
scr_memsetw((void *)new_origin, vc->vc_video_erase_char,
new_scr_end - new_origin);
if (vc->vc_kmalloced)
kfree(vc->vc_screenbuf);
kfree(vc->vc_screenbuf);
vc->vc_screenbuf = newscreen;
vc->vc_kmalloced = 1;
vc->vc_screenbuf_size = new_screen_size;
set_origin(vc);

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -995,8 +991,7 @@ void vc_deallocate(unsigned int currcons)
vc->vc_sw->con_deinit(vc);
put_pid(vc->vt_pid);
module_put(vc->vc_sw->owner);
if (vc->vc_kmalloced)
kfree(vc->vc_screenbuf);
kfree(vc->vc_screenbuf);
if (currcons >= MIN_NR_CONSOLES)
kfree(vc);
vc_cons[currcons].d = NULL;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2881,7 +2876,6 @@ static int __init con_init(void)
INIT_WORK(&vc_cons[currcons].SAK_work, vc_SAK);
visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
vc->vc_screenbuf = kzalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_NOWAIT);
vc->vc_kmalloced = 0;
vc_init(vc, vc->vc_rows, vc->vc_cols,
currcons || !vc->vc_sw->con_save_screen);
}
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/console_struct.h
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Expand Up @@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ struct vc_data {
unsigned int vc_need_wrap : 1;
unsigned int vc_can_do_color : 1;
unsigned int vc_report_mouse : 2;
unsigned int vc_kmalloced : 1;
unsigned char vc_utf : 1; /* Unicode UTF-8 encoding */
unsigned char vc_utf_count;
int vc_utf_char;
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