[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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.h b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.h
index f244ad066d68..b9386d168c04 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.h
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.h
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ struct fbcon_ops {
         char  *cursor_data;
         u8    *fontbuffer;
         u8    *fontdata;
+        u8    *cursor_src;
+        u32    cursor_size;
         u32    fd_size;
 };
     /*