Re : User allocated memory for DMA

[grave]

Did you check the bigphysmem area in the kernel, as I remember it allow  
you to reserve a certain amount of memory out of linux...

xavier

Le 06.12.2004 13:59:04, Amit K Tiwari a écrit :
> I am writing a driver for a PCIX board to run on Y-HPC (64-bit Yellow
> Dog Linux pre-installed on Apple XServe). The application is to
> process the data acquired from the board and send the results out.  
> The
> data needs to be acquired by DMA into a user allocated buffer. The
> amount of data is huge and I need about 1.5 GB per DMA operation.
> 
> Here is what I am doing:
> 1. malloc and mlock the memory in user mode.
> 2. get the user pages (get_user_pages) in the driver.
> 3. Find out how much physically contiguous memory did the application
> get (Pass through all the pages and see if the physical addresses got
> from page_to_phys are contiguous).
> 4. Prepare a scatter-gather list of contiguous regions.
> 5. pci_map_sg the sg list to get the DMA addresses for each of the
> entries.
> 
> My problem is that at step 3 I do not get any contiguous region.
> Surprisingly, some of the physical addresses are such that the low
> order page (say page 151) has high order physical address (say,
> 1ef234000) while the next high order page (say page 152) has the next
> lower physical address(say 1ef233000) and this trend continues for
> some 10 pages after which the addresses totally far apart.
> 
> As a result of this, my scatter gather list has as many entries
> as there are pages allocated.
> 
> Am I doing something bad here?
> I know there is limit on memory that can be allocated through
> pci_alloc_*. Is there any other way in which I can allocate memory  
> for
> DMA?
> 
> Thanks,
> Amit K T
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