[PATCH] fbcon: Use persistent allocation for cursor blinking
Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair. This
patch turns that into a single allocation.
This allocation was the most frequent kmalloc I saw on my test box.
[adaplas]
Per Alan's suggestion, move global variables to fbcon's private structure.
This would also avoid resource leaks when fbcon is unloaded.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.h b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.h
index f244ad0..b9386d1 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.h
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.h
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@
char *cursor_data;
u8 *fontbuffer;
u8 *fontdata;
+ u8 *cursor_src;
+ u32 cursor_size;
u32 fd_size;
};
/*