From: Jiri Slaby moxaXmitBuff is almost unused -- only one byte from the whole PAGE_SIZE bytes is used. Do not alloc so much space for almost anything. Also remove lock protecting this page allocation. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/char/moxa.c | 24 +----------------------- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 23 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/moxa.c~char-moxa-remove-unused-allocated-page drivers/char/moxa.c --- a/drivers/char/moxa.c~char-moxa-remove-unused-allocated-page +++ a/drivers/char/moxa.c @@ -212,12 +212,10 @@ module_param(verbose, bool, 0644); static struct tty_driver *moxaDriver; static struct moxa_str moxaChannels[MAX_PORTS]; -static unsigned char *moxaXmitBuff; static int moxaTimer_on; static struct timer_list moxaTimer; static int moxaEmptyTimer_on[MAX_PORTS]; static struct timer_list moxaEmptyTimer[MAX_PORTS]; -static struct semaphore moxaBuffSem; /* * static functions: @@ -343,7 +341,6 @@ static int __init moxa_init(void) if (!moxaDriver) return -ENOMEM; - init_MUTEX(&moxaBuffSem); moxaDriver->owner = THIS_MODULE; moxaDriver->name = "ttyMX"; moxaDriver->major = ttymajor; @@ -360,8 +357,6 @@ static int __init moxa_init(void) moxaDriver->flags = TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW; tty_set_operations(moxaDriver, &moxa_ops); - moxaXmitBuff = NULL; - for (i = 0, ch = moxaChannels; i < MAX_PORTS; i++, ch++) { ch->type = PORT_16550A; ch->port = i; @@ -533,7 +528,6 @@ static int moxa_open(struct tty_struct * struct moxa_str *ch; int port; int retval; - unsigned long page; port = PORTNO(tty); if (port == MAX_PORTS) { @@ -543,21 +537,6 @@ static int moxa_open(struct tty_struct * tty->driver_data = NULL; return (-ENODEV); } - down(&moxaBuffSem); - if (!moxaXmitBuff) { - page = get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); - if (!page) { - up(&moxaBuffSem); - return (-ENOMEM); - } - /* This test is guarded by the BuffSem so no longer needed - delete me in 2.5 */ - if (moxaXmitBuff) - free_page(page); - else - moxaXmitBuff = (unsigned char *) page; - } - up(&moxaBuffSem); ch = &moxaChannels[port]; ch->count++; @@ -739,8 +718,7 @@ static void moxa_put_char(struct tty_str return; port = ch->port; spin_lock_irqsave(&moxa_lock, flags); - moxaXmitBuff[0] = c; - MoxaPortWriteData(port, moxaXmitBuff, 1); + MoxaPortWriteData(port, &c, 1); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&moxa_lock, flags); /************************************************ if ( !(ch->statusflags & LOWWAIT) && (MoxaPortTxFree(port) <= 100) ) _