Re: [discuss] Re: 32-bit dma allocations on 64-bit platforms

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

/*
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:37:50PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Have you tried with 2.6.7? The following program fails to trigger anything
> like what you've mentioned, though granted it was a 512MB allocation on
> a 1GB machine. swapoff(2) merely fails.

And after fixing a bug in the program, not even that fails:
*/


#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <sys/swap.h>

int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
{
	int i;
	long pagesize, physpages;
	size_t size;
	void *p;

	pagesize = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);
	if (pagesize < 0) {
		perror("failed to determine pagesize");
		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}
	physpages = sysconf(_SC_PHYS_PAGES);
	if (physpages < 0) {
		perror("failed to determine physical memory capacity");
		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}
	if ((size_t)(physpages/2) > SIZE_MAX/pagesize) {
		fprintf(stderr, "insufficient virtualspace capacity\n");
		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}
	size = (physpages/2)*pagesize;
	p = malloc(size);
	if (!p) {
		perror("allocation failure");
		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}
	bzero(p, size);
	for (i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
		if (swapoff(argv[i])) {
			perror("swapoff failure");
			fprintf(stderr, "failed to offline %s\n", argv[i]);
			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
		}
	}
	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}