Hi Brent and Souptick,
On 12/21/15, 2:23 PM, "ath6kl on behalf of Souptick Joarder"
<ath6kl-boun...@lists.infradead.org on behalf of jrdr.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Brent,
>
>On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Brent Taylor <moto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since commit 8437754c83351d6213c1a47ff029c1126d6042a7, ar->fw is expected to
>> be pointing to memory allocated by vmalloc. If the api1 method (via
>> ath6kl_fetch_fw_api1) is used to allocate memory for ar->fw, then kmemdup is
>> used. This patch checks if the firmware being loaded is the 'fw' image,
>> then use vmalloc, otherwise use kmalloc.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brent Taylor <moto...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c | 7 ++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
>> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
>> index 6ae0734..4f2b124d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
>> @@ -673,10 +673,15 @@ static int ath6kl_get_fw(struct ath6kl *ar, const char
>> *filename,
>> return ret;
>>
>> *fw_len = fw_entry->size;
>> - *fw = kmemdup(fw_entry->data, fw_entry->size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + if (&ar->fw == fw)
>> + *fw = vmalloc(fw_entry->size);
>> + else
>> + *fw = kmalloc(fw_entry->size, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Why vmalloc and kmalloc both are required? can't use either
>vmalloc or kmalloc?
My guess is the reason to use both vmalloc and kmalloc is that the firmware
blob can be near 128KB. I know our ar6003 firmwares approach that. So vmalloc
must have been chosen to avoid any issues if it was greater than 128KB. So
kmalloc is used for all the small firmware pieces (board data, otp.bin, etc)
but vmalloc for the firmware itself.
I personally fixed this issue for loading the firmware (but not board data,
opt.bin, etc) in the api1 and testmode functions by have it call a new helper
function:
static int ath6kl_get_fw_vm(struct ath6kl *ar, const char *filename,
u8 **fw, size_t *fw_len)
{
const struct firmware *fw_entry;
int ret;
ret = request_firmware(&fw_entry, filename, ar->dev);
if (ret)
return ret;
*fw_len = fw_entry->size;
*fw = vmalloc(*fw_len);
if (*fw == NULL)
ret = -ENOMEM;
memcpy(*fw, fw_entry->data, *fw_len);
release_firmware(fw_entry);
return ret;
}
>>
>> if (*fw == NULL)
>> ret = -ENOMEM;
>> + else
>> + memcpy(*fw, fw_entry->data, fw_entry->size);
>>
>> release_firmware(fw_entry);
>>
>> --
>> 2.6.3
>>
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>-Souptick
>
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