iwi leaks memory?

Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen.org
Fri Feb 16 18:12:04 UTC 2007


Hi,

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0200, V.Chukharev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that iwi driver cannot survive more than just a few cycles
> of switching down/up.
> In a place with a bad wireless connection I needed to do that quite
> a number of times
> (that was the simplest way to restore connectivity I knew), and after
> 5-10 cycles I needed
> to reboot my notebook totally.
> 
> Can anybody with iwi (<Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG>) confirm (or
> better unconfirm)
> that doing
> 
>     for ii in `jot 100`; do sudo ifconfig iwi0 down; sleep 2; sudo ifconfig iwi0 up; done
> 
> always results in the following messages (and lost connectivity):
> 
> Feb 15 09:43:59 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
> Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP
> Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
> Feb 15 09:44:18 chu kernel: iwi0: device timeout
> Feb 15 09:44:20 chu kernel: iwi0: could not allocate firmware DMA memory
> 
> A fix for this would be even better ;))

cognet@ has once provided me a tiny hack to the iwi(4) driver and
I never get such errors.  Maybe I'm not suffering enough UP/DOWN
cycles to trigger it, but it might be worth trying it.

Note that he has insisted that this is a *hack*.

The patch is attached.  Please let us know if it makes things
better.

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
-------------- next part --------------
Index: if_iwi.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/iwi/if_iwi.c,v
retrieving revision 1.45
diff -u -p -r1.45 if_iwi.c
--- if_iwi.c	2 Feb 2007 05:17:18 -0000	1.45
+++ if_iwi.c	16 Feb 2007 17:40:33 -0000
@@ -512,6 +512,12 @@ iwi_detach(device_t dev)
 	if (sc->mem != NULL)
 		bus_release_resource(dev, SYS_RES_MEMORY, sc->mem_rid, sc->mem);
 
+	if (sc->fw_map)
+		bus_dmamap_unload(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_map);
+	if (sc->fw_virtaddr != 0)
+		bus_dmamem_free(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_virtaddr, sc->fw_map);
+	if (sc->fw_dmat)
+		bus_dma_tag_destroy(sc->fw_dmat);
 	if (ifp != NULL)
 		if_free(ifp);
 
@@ -3085,6 +3091,7 @@ iwi_init_locked(void *priv, int force)
 	struct ifnet *ifp = ic->ic_ifp;
 	struct iwi_rx_data *data;
 	int i;
+	int must_realloc = 0;
 	IWI_LOCK_DECL;
 
 	if (sc->flags & IWI_FLAG_FW_LOADING)
@@ -3106,14 +3113,27 @@ iwi_init_locked(void *priv, int force)
 	}
 
 	/* allocate DMA memory for mapping firmware image */
-	if (sc->fw_boot.size > sc->fw_dma_size)
+	if (sc->fw_boot.size > sc->fw_dma_size) {
+		must_realloc = 1;
 		sc->fw_dma_size = sc->fw_boot.size;
-	if (sc->fw_fw.size > sc->fw_dma_size)
+	}
+	if (sc->fw_fw.size > sc->fw_dma_size) {
+		must_realloc = 1;
 		sc->fw_dma_size = sc->fw_fw.size;
-	if (sc->fw_uc.size > sc->fw_dma_size)
+	}
+	if (sc->fw_uc.size > sc->fw_dma_size) {
 		sc->fw_dma_size = sc->fw_uc.size;
+		must_realloc = 1;
+	}
+	if (must_realloc && sc->fw_virtaddr != 0) {
+		bus_dmamap_sync(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_map, BUS_DMASYNC_POSTWRITE);
+		bus_dmamap_unload(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_map);
+		bus_dmamem_free(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_virtaddr, sc->fw_map);
+		bus_dma_tag_destroy(sc->fw_dmat);
+	}
 
-	if (bus_dma_tag_create(bus_get_dma_tag(sc->sc_dev), 4, 0, 
+	if (must_realloc &&
+	    bus_dma_tag_create(bus_get_dma_tag(sc->sc_dev), 4, 0, 
 	    BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR_32BIT, BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR, NULL, NULL, 
 	    sc->fw_dma_size, 1, sc->fw_dma_size, 0, NULL, NULL, 
 	    &sc->fw_dmat) != 0) {
@@ -3122,14 +3142,16 @@ iwi_init_locked(void *priv, int force)
 		IWI_LOCK(sc);
 		goto fail;
 	}
-	if (bus_dmamem_alloc(sc->fw_dmat, &sc->fw_virtaddr, 0,
+	if (must_realloc &&
+	    bus_dmamem_alloc(sc->fw_dmat, &sc->fw_virtaddr, 0,
 	    &sc->fw_map) != 0) {
 		device_printf(sc->sc_dev,
 		    "could not allocate firmware DMA memory\n");
 		IWI_LOCK(sc);
 		goto fail2;
 	}
-	if (bus_dmamap_load(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_map, sc->fw_virtaddr,
+	if (must_realloc &&
+	    bus_dmamap_load(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_map, sc->fw_virtaddr,
 	    sc->fw_dma_size, iwi_dma_map_addr, &sc->fw_physaddr, 0) != 0) {
 		device_printf(sc->sc_dev, "could not load firmware DMA map\n");
 		IWI_LOCK(sc);
@@ -3185,11 +3207,6 @@ iwi_init_locked(void *priv, int force)
 	}
 	sc->flags |= IWI_FLAG_FW_INITED;
 
-	bus_dmamap_sync(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_map, BUS_DMASYNC_POSTWRITE);
-	bus_dmamap_unload(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_map);
-	bus_dmamem_free(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_virtaddr, sc->fw_map);
-	bus_dma_tag_destroy(sc->fw_dmat);
-
 	if (iwi_config(sc) != 0) {
 		device_printf(sc->sc_dev, "device configuration failed\n");
 		goto fail;
@@ -3218,6 +3235,7 @@ fail4:	bus_dmamap_sync(sc->fw_dmat, sc->
 fail3:	bus_dmamem_free(sc->fw_dmat, sc->fw_virtaddr, sc->fw_map);
 fail2:	bus_dma_tag_destroy(sc->fw_dmat);
 fail:	ifp->if_flags &= ~IFF_UP;
+	sc->fw_virtaddr = 0;
 	sc->flags &= ~IWI_FLAG_FW_LOADING;
 	iwi_stop(sc);
 	iwi_put_firmware(sc);


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