V4L/DVB (7492): vivi: Simplify the vivi driver and avoid deadlocks
authorBrandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:10:59 +0000 (18:10 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:07:57 +0000 (14:07 -0300)
vivi previously had a very complex queuing system and held spinlocks while
doing copy_to_user, kmalloc, etc.  This caused the driver to easily deadlock
when a multi-threaded application used it and revealed bugs in videobuf too.

This replaces the copy_to_user with memcpy since we were never copying to user
space addresses.  And makes the kmalloc atomic.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>

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