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Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: fix DMA code and bugs

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On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 20:30 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:

> > Of course, I would very much appreciate you review the actual bug fix in
> > iwl_hcmd_queue_reclaim, which consist of the addition of the line
> >
> > +               bd = &txq->bd[index];
> 
> Okay I found the source of the evil, with your big pointer :)
> The bug caused by this memory optimization juggling we've done and
> very  bad cut and paste coding
> We moved for command buffers from pcI_alloc consitent to kmalloc which
> required pci mapping that that was coded wrongly. Now this kmalloc
> stuff is not good as well since we have this 36 bit memory limitation
> on 64 bit platforms.
> This is the issue I'm trying to address recently I'm not sure what yet
> what allocation schema would be best yet.

That can't be all though; it still crashes right away when I enable 64k
pages on my box.

johannes

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