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author | Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com> | 2008-03-25 16:47:16 -0400 |
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committer | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2008-03-27 16:01:14 -0400 |
commit | 6b84236d37ef602d1e4f52b27162c20394e83359 (patch) | |
tree | 0e383a32e66f7866fb5ac574acfa408b59e2d8cf /drivers/ieee1394/dma.h | |
parent | 05dda977f2574c3341abef9b74c27d2b362e1e3a (diff) |
firewire: fw-ohci: plug dma memory leak in AR handler
There's an ugly little memory leak in firewire-ohci's
ar_context_tasklet(), where we're not freeing up some of the memory we
use for each ar_buffer, due to a moving pointer. The problem has been
there for a while, but didn't get noticed until after converting the AR
routines over to use coherent DMA and I started running into I/O stall-
outs with the following message output repeatedly to the console:
PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 53248 bytes at device 0000:04:09.0
Plugging this leak is definitely necessary, but unfortunately, isn't the
entire answer to my problem, it only increases the amount of I/O that I
can do before hitting the problem. Still working on tracking down the
root cause..
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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