bus_dmamem_alloc() can't handle large NOWAIT requests
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 8 21:25:23 PST 2005
Peter Jeremy wrote:
> I've just been tracking down a panic in 4.x and found that the problem
> is still present in 6.x.
>
> According to bus_dma(9), bus_dmamem_alloc() can be invoked with a
> flag BUS_DMA_NOWAIT to indicate that sleep()ing is not allowed.
>
> At least on the i386, if the requested size exceeds 1 page (or some
> other cases), the requested memory will be allocated via contigmalloc().
>
> bus_dmamem_alloc() maps BUS_DMA_NOWAIT to M_NOWAIT but contigmalloc()
> does not support M_NOWAIT and will tsleep() under some conditions.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the VM code to be able to
> suggest a fix.
>
Will contigmalloc() actually sleep? If so, then this is something that
needs to be addressed in contigmalloc.
Scott
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