From: Peter Dinda <pdinda@northwestern.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 23:41:56 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Modified graphics console support in linux to use vmalloc to allocate framebufs
X-Git-Url: http://v3vee.org/palacios/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=palacios.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=732d332c0ddff091bfe49073ec4af88f7cf0431a

Modified graphics console support in linux to use vmalloc to allocate framebufs
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diff --git a/linux_module/palacios-graphics-console.c b/linux_module/palacios-graphics-console.c
index 0b03b62..a84bb9b 100644
--- a/linux_module/palacios-graphics-console.c
+++ b/linux_module/palacios-graphics-console.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static v3_graphics_console_t g_open(void * priv_data,
     printk("palacios: allocating %u bytes for %u by %u by %u buffer\n",
 	   mem, desired_spec->width, desired_spec->height, desired_spec->bytes_per_pixel);
 
-    gc->data = kmalloc(mem,GFP_KERNEL);
+    gc->data = vmalloc(mem);
 
     if (!(gc->data)) { 
 	printk("palacios: unable to allocate memory for frame buffer\n");