Re: commit 68e5e9d734503695915734e50e9427624cf8f3b2 (Re: vfb: make virtual framebuffer mmapable)

[Ilya Yanok]

Hi Jan,

Jan Beulich wrote:
> Is there any particular reason why this change uses vmalloc_32()
> rather than simply vmalloc()?

I don't think so. I wasn't very experienced with kernel programming that
time and just copied code from another driver. Actually I think we don't
really need all this rvmalloc()/rvfree() magic we just need to use
remap_vmalloc_range() instead of remap_pfn_range().

Regards, Ilya.

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