Oops, I'm sorry for the self-reply. Just found a highly helpful thread
posted from 11th (`contigfree, free what?'), so please disregard my
message.
/me bonks his head against a wall that says `mea culpa'
Thanks,
Eugene
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:42:17PM +0900, Eugene M. Kim wrote:
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> QUESTION:
> Does contigfree() really free up memory allocated using contigmalloc()?
>
> BACKGROUND:
> I've been trying to make up a kmod that allocates/deallocates memory in
> a specific physical address range. Mike Smith suggested using busdma
> functions to do the job, so I followed it.
>
> After allocating and deallocating memory several times, it seemed that
> bus_dmamem_free() was not freeing the memory properly. I looked at
> busdma_machdep.c where bus_dmamem_free() was defined, and found:
>
> void
> bus_dmamem_free(bus_dma_tag_t dmat, void *vaddr, bus_dmamap_t map)
> {
> /*
> * dmamem does not need to be bounced, so the map should be
> * NULL
> */
> if (map != NULL)
> panic("bus_dmamem_free: Invalid map freed\n");
> /* XXX There is no "contigfree" and "free" doesn't work */
> if ((dmat->maxsize <= PAGE_SIZE) && dmat->lowaddr >= ptoa(Maxmem))
> free(vaddr, M_DEVBUF);
> }
>
> However, there *is* contigfree() and a related patch was applied on
> -current around August, so I did the same thing (adding an else clause
> to call contigfree(vaddr, dmat->maxsize, M_DEVBUF)).
>
> It didn't solve the memory leak problem either, so I'm stuck here...
>
> Could anyone shed a light on this?
>
> Regards,
> Eugene
>
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