Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 22:19:32 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mmap problems? Message-ID: <199612190619.WAA08457@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:21:42 MST." <199612190021.RAA10646@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>From The Desk Of Terry Lambert :
> > I am a little confuse . Why would "tv" work 3 or 5 times then fail to run
> > because the driver did not mmap properly the pages?
>
> Because the VM space was exhausted because the cleanup-on-close never
> happened like it was supposed to...
>
> And/or the VM space has to be contiguously allocated, and the necessary
> memory could not be allocated after a couple of runs because it was
> too fragmented.
>
> You'll have to look carefully at the driver to see which is happening
> (if either is the correct reason).
>
First, the driver used to work and it was recent change in the system
not in the driver which is causing the problem.
At attach, the meteor executes:
define RANGE_BOUNDARY (1<<22)
static vm_offset_t
get_meteor_mem(int unit, unsigned size)
{
vm_offset_t addr = 0;
addr = vm_page_alloc_contig(size, 0x100000, 0xffffffff, 1<<24);
if(addr == 0)
addr = vm_page_alloc_contig(size, 0x100000, 0xffffffff,
PAGE_SIZE);
if(addr == 0) {
printf("meteor%d: Unable to allocate %d bytes of memory.\n",
unit, size);
}
return addr;
}
This call is executed once at boot time.
The mmap call in the driver is:
meteor_mmap(dev_t dev, int offset, int nprot)
{
int unit;
meteor_reg_t *mtr;
unit = UNIT(minor(dev));
if (unit >= NMETEOR) /* at this point could this happen? */
return(-1);
mtr = &(meteor[unit]);
if(nprot & PROT_EXEC)
return -1;
if(offset >= mtr->alloc_pages * PAGE_SIZE)
return -1;
return i386_btop(vtophys(mtr->bigbuf) + offset);
}
------
The application mmaps a region from the driver :
yuv_data = (uint8 *)mmap((caddr_t)0, frame_size,
PROT_READ,0, video, (off_t)0);
What this does is mmaps a region of memory which was allocated
by the driver at boot time. No further attempts is made by
the driver to allocate more memory.
So in our scenario , starting /killing the application a few times
the system fails to mmap properly all the requested pages.
Mind you I am asking for the same number of pages so that
pretty much leaves the problem to either mmap or the VM system.
Tnks
Amancio
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