liquidio: stop using huge static buffer, save 4096k in .data

Only compile-tested - I don't have the hardware. >From code inspection, octeon_pci_write_core_mem() appears to be safe wrt unaligned source. In any case, u8 fbuf[] was not guaranteed to be aligned anyway. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> CC: Felix Manlunas <[email protected]> CC: Prasad Kanneganti <[email protected]> CC: Derek Chickles <[email protected]> CC: David Miller <[email protected]> CC: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Acked-by: Felix Manlunas <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
jix · Jun 22, 2017 · b381f78 · b381f78
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_console.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_console.c
@@ -724,13 +724,11 @@ static int octeon_console_read(struct octeon_device *oct, u32 console_num,
 }
 
 #define FBUF_SIZE	(4 * 1024 * 1024)
-u8 fbuf[FBUF_SIZE];
 
 int octeon_download_firmware(struct octeon_device *oct, const u8 *data,
 			     size_t size)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
-	u8 *p = fbuf;
 	u32 crc32_result;
 	u64 load_addr;
 	u32 image_len;
@@ -805,10 +803,8 @@ int octeon_download_firmware(struct octeon_device *oct, const u8 *data,
 			else
 				size = FBUF_SIZE;
 
-			memcpy(p, data, size);
-
 			/* download the image */
-			octeon_pci_write_core_mem(oct, load_addr, p, (u32)size);
+			octeon_pci_write_core_mem(oct, load_addr, data, (u32)size);
 
 			data += size;
 			rem -= (u32)size;

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_mem_ops.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_mem_ops.c
@@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ octeon_pci_read_core_mem(struct octeon_device *oct,
 void
 octeon_pci_write_core_mem(struct octeon_device *oct,
 			  u64 coreaddr,
-			  u8 *buf,
+			  const u8 *buf,
 			  u32 len)
 {
-	__octeon_pci_rw_core_mem(oct, coreaddr, buf, len, 0);
+	__octeon_pci_rw_core_mem(oct, coreaddr, (u8 *)buf, len, 0);
 }
 
 u64 octeon_read_device_mem64(struct octeon_device *oct, u64 coreaddr)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_mem_ops.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_mem_ops.h
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ octeon_pci_read_core_mem(struct octeon_device *oct,
 void
 octeon_pci_write_core_mem(struct octeon_device *oct,
 			  u64 coreaddr,
-			  u8 *buf,
+			  const u8 *buf,
 			  u32 len);
 
 #endif