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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-09-10 11:50:18 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-09-10 19:14:30 +0200
commit83f84d7bd49f9e4deea0a77a76c9882673ee1f3c (patch)
treefb2f84fa74450f89cbb429a7457ff0e80ece35b7 /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c
parent7439046d9747966bb805ca8bfd1086a876a4b8fd (diff)
iwlwifi: load firmware in chunks
Instead of allocating one big chunk of DMA-coherent memory for the firmware and keeping it around, only vmalloc() the firmware and copy it into a single page of DMA-coherent memory for the upload. The advantage is that we don't need DMA memory for the firmware image that is stored while the driver is operating, we only need it while uploading. This will make it easier for the driver to work if the system has fragmented memory. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c26
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c
index 48d6d44c16d..198634b75ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
#include <linux/firmware.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include "iwl-drv.h"
#include "iwl-debug.h"
@@ -164,10 +165,8 @@ struct fw_sec {
static void iwl_free_fw_desc(struct iwl_drv *drv, struct fw_desc *desc)
{
- if (desc->v_addr)
- dma_free_coherent(drv->trans->dev, desc->len,
- desc->v_addr, desc->p_addr);
- desc->v_addr = NULL;
+ vfree(desc->data);
+ desc->data = NULL;
desc->len = 0;
}
@@ -186,21 +185,24 @@ static void iwl_dealloc_ucode(struct iwl_drv *drv)
}
static int iwl_alloc_fw_desc(struct iwl_drv *drv, struct fw_desc *desc,
- struct fw_sec *sec)
+ struct fw_sec *sec)
{
- if (!sec || !sec->size) {
- desc->v_addr = NULL;
+ void *data;
+
+ desc->data = NULL;
+
+ if (!sec || !sec->size)
return -EINVAL;
- }
- desc->v_addr = dma_alloc_coherent(drv->trans->dev, sec->size,
- &desc->p_addr, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!desc->v_addr)
+ data = vmalloc(sec->size);
+ if (!data)
return -ENOMEM;
desc->len = sec->size;
desc->offset = sec->offset;
- memcpy(desc->v_addr, sec->data, sec->size);
+ memcpy(data, sec->data, desc->len);
+ desc->data = data;
+
return 0;
}