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wl1251: allocate space for firmware with vmalloc()

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Earlier firmware was stored to a memory area allocated with kmalloc()
but finding a a contiguous area of memory long enough for the firmware is
very difficult in certain cases. better to allocate the memory for firmware
with vmalloc() instead and use a small buffer for DMA transfers.

Thanks to Eero Tamminen for the idea.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vidhya Govindan <vidhya.govindan@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Kalle Valo 2009-11-17 18:48:45 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent d5da79ac1f
commit c74ddfd5ea
2 changed files with 25 additions and 7 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1251_boot.c
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@ -314,8 +314,8 @@ int wl1251_boot_run_firmware(struct wl1251 *wl)
static int wl1251_boot_upload_firmware(struct wl1251 *wl)
{
int addr, chunk_num, partition_limit;
size_t fw_data_len;
u8 *p;
size_t fw_data_len, len;
u8 *p, *buf;
/* whal_FwCtrl_LoadFwImageSm() */
@ -334,6 +334,12 @@ static int wl1251_boot_upload_firmware(struct wl1251 *wl)
return -EIO;
}
buf = kmalloc(CHUNK_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf) {
wl1251_error("allocation for firmware upload chunk failed");
return -ENOMEM;
}
wl1251_set_partition(wl, WL1251_PART_DOWN_MEM_START,
WL1251_PART_DOWN_MEM_SIZE,
WL1251_PART_DOWN_REG_START,
@ -364,7 +370,11 @@ static int wl1251_boot_upload_firmware(struct wl1251 *wl)
p = wl->fw + FW_HDR_SIZE + chunk_num * CHUNK_SIZE;
wl1251_debug(DEBUG_BOOT, "uploading fw chunk 0x%p to 0x%x",
p, addr);
wl1251_mem_write(wl, addr, p, CHUNK_SIZE);
/* need to copy the chunk for dma */
len = CHUNK_SIZE;
memcpy(buf, p, len);
wl1251_mem_write(wl, addr, buf, len);
chunk_num++;
}
@ -372,9 +382,16 @@ static int wl1251_boot_upload_firmware(struct wl1251 *wl)
/* 10.4 upload the last chunk */
addr = WL1251_PART_DOWN_MEM_START + chunk_num * CHUNK_SIZE;
p = wl->fw + FW_HDR_SIZE + chunk_num * CHUNK_SIZE;
/* need to copy the chunk for dma */
len = fw_data_len % CHUNK_SIZE;
memcpy(buf, p, len);
wl1251_debug(DEBUG_BOOT, "uploading fw last chunk (%zu B) 0x%p to 0x%x",
fw_data_len % CHUNK_SIZE, p, addr);
wl1251_mem_write(wl, addr, p, fw_data_len % CHUNK_SIZE);
len, p, addr);
wl1251_mem_write(wl, addr, buf, len);
kfree(buf);
return 0;
}

5
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1251_main.c
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@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/irq.h>
#include <linux/crc32.h>
#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include "wl1251.h"
#include "wl12xx_80211.h"
@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ static int wl1251_fetch_firmware(struct wl1251 *wl)
}
wl->fw_len = fw->size;
wl->fw = kmalloc(wl->fw_len, GFP_KERNEL);
wl->fw = vmalloc(wl->fw_len);
if (!wl->fw) {
wl1251_error("could not allocate memory for the firmware");
@ -1427,7 +1428,7 @@ int wl1251_free_hw(struct wl1251 *wl)
kfree(wl->target_mem_map);
kfree(wl->data_path);
kfree(wl->fw);
vfree(wl->fw);
wl->fw = NULL;
kfree(wl->nvs);
wl->nvs = NULL;