controllers.
More and more RealTek controllers started to implement EEE feature.
Vendor driver seems to load a kind of firmware for EEE with
additional PHY fixups. It is known that the EEE feature may need
ASPM support. Unfortunately there is no documentation for EEE of
the controller so enabling ASPM may cause more problems.
Unnecessarily complex LE format used on Marvell controller was
main reason not to enable 64bit DMA addressing in driver. If high
32bit address of DMA address of TX/RX buffer is changed, driver has
to generate a new LE. In TX path, driver will keep track of lastly
used high 32bit address of DMA address and generate a new LE
whenever it sees high address change in the DMA address. In RX path,
driver will always use two LEs to specify 64bit DMA address of RX
buffer. If the high 32bit address of DMA address of RX buffer is
the same as previous DMA address of RX buffer, driver does not have
to use two LEs but driver will use two LEs for simplicity in RX
ring management.
One of draw back for switching to 64bit DMA addressing is that the
large amount of LEs are used to specify 64bit DMA address such that
number of available LEs for TX/RX buffers are considerably reduced.
To mitigate the issue, increase number of available LEs from 256 to
384 for TX and from 256 to 512 for RX. For 32bit architectures,
msk(4) does not use 64bit DMA addressing to save resources.
Tested by: das
based on Solarflare SFC9000 family controllers. The driver supports jumbo
frames, transmit/receive checksum offload, TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO),
Large Receive Offload (LRO), VLAN checksum offload, VLAN TSO, and Receive Side
Scaling (RSS) using MSI-X interrupts.
This work was sponsored by Solarflare Communications, Inc.
My sincere thanks to Ben Hutchings for doing a lot of the hard work!
Sponsored by: Solarflare Communications, Inc.
MFC after: 3 weeks
can be enabled via the hw.mfi.msi tunable. Many mfi(4) controllers also
support MSI-X, but in testing it seems that many adapters do not work with
MSI-X but do work with MSI.
MFC after: 2 weeks
is actually broken, or needs a BIOS upgrade for 64 bit loads, but this uncovered
a couple of misplaced opcode definitions and some missing continual mbox command
cases, so might as well update them here.
maximum IP datagram size (65535 bytes) +
Ethernet header size (14 bytes) +
2 * VLAN tag size (4 bytes) [1].
[1] We need to multiply by 2 to account for the double VLAN tag
provision added in IEEE 802.1ad.
Submitted by: David Somayajulu (david.somayajulu qlogic.com)
MFC after: 4 days
curthread-accessing part of mtx_{,un}lock(9) when using a r210623-style
curthread implementation on sparc64, crashing the kernel in its early
cycles as PCPU isn't set up, yet (and can't be set up as OFW is one of the
things we need for that, which leads to a chicken-and-egg problem). What
happens is that due to the fact that the idea of r210623 actually is to
allow the compiler to cache invocations of curthread, it factors out
obtaining curthread needed for both mtx_lock(9) and mtx_unlock(9) to
before the branch based on kobj_mutex_inited when compiling the kernel
without the debugging options. So change kobj_class_compile_static(9)
to just never acquire kobj_mtx, effectively restricting it to its
documented use, and add a kobj_init_static(9) for initializing objects
using a class compiled with the former and that also avoids using mutex(9)
(and malloc(9)). Also assert in both of these functions that they are
used in their intended way only.
While at it, inline kobj_register_method() and kobj_unregister_method()
as there wasn't much point for factoring them out in the first place
and so that a reader of the code has to figure out the locking for
fewer functions missing a KOBJ_ASSERT.
Tested on powerpc{,64} by andreast.
Reviewed by: nwhitehorn (earlier version), jhb
MFC after: 3 days
- Don't use a single big DMA block for all rings. Create separate
DMA area for each ring instead. Currently the following DMA
areas are created:
Event ring, standard RX ring, jumbo RX ring, RX return ring,
hardware MAC statistics and producer/consumer status area.
For Tigon II, mini RX ring and TX ring are additionally created.
- Added missing bus_dmamap_sync(9) in various TX/RX paths.
- TX ring is no longer created for Tigon 1 such that it saves more
resources on Tigon 1.
- Data sheet is not clear about alignment requirement of each ring
so use 32 bytes alignment for normal DMA area but use 64 bytes
alignment for jumbo RX ring where the extended RX descriptor
size is 64 bytes.
- For each TX/RX buffers use separate DMA tag(e.g. the size of a
DMA segment, total size of DMA segments etc).
- Tigon allows separate DMA area for event producer, RX return
producer and TX consumer which is really cool feature. This
means TX and RX path could be independently run in parallel.
However ti(4) uses a single driver lock so it's meaningless
to have separate DMA area for these producer/consumer such that
this change creates a single status DMA area.
- It seems Tigon has no limits on DMA address space and I also
don't see any problem with that but old comments in driver
indicates there could be issues on descriptors being located in
64bit region. Introduce a tunable, dev.ti.%d.dac, to disable
using 64bit DMA in driver. The default is 0 which means it would
use full 64bit DMA. If there are DMA issues, users can disable
it by setting the tunable to 0.
- Do not increase watchdog timer in ti_txeof(). Previously driver
increased the watchdog timer whenever there are queued TX frames.
- When stat ticks is set to 0, skip processing ti_stats_update(),
avoiding bus_dmamap_sync(9) and updating if_collisions counter.
- MTU does not include FCS bytes, replace it with
ETHER_VLAN_ENCAP_LEN.
With these changes, ti(4) should work on PAE environments.
Many thanks to Jay Borkenhagen for remote hardware access.
have administrators control them. ti(4) provides a character
device to control various other features of driver via ioctls but
users had to write their own code to manipulate these parameters.
It seems some default values for these parameters are not optimal
on today's system but leave it as it was and let administrators
change them. The following parameters could be changed:
dev.ti.%d.rx_coal_ticks
dev.ti.%d.rx_max_coal_bds
dev.ti.%d.tx_coal_ticks
dev.ti.%d.tx_max_coal_bds
dev.ti.%d.tx_buf_ratio
dev.ti.%d.stat_ticks
The interface has to be brought down and up again before a change
takes effect.
ti(4) controller supports hardware MAC counters with additional
DMA statistics. So it's doable to export these counters via
sysctl interface. Unfortunately, these counters are cumulative
such that driver have to either send an explicit clear command to
controller after extracting them or have to maintain internal
counters to get actual changes. Neither look good to me so
counters were not exported via sysctl.
Pre-allocate the memory in device attach time. While I'm here
remove unnecessary reassignment of error variable as it was already
initialized. Also added a missing driver lock in TIIOCSETTRACE
handler.
cp2103 usb-to-serial chip.
- This patch also makes the line status polling asynchronous, to reduce
the time needed to change the GPIO pins.
Submitted by: JD Louw
MFC after: 1 week
- Make it easier to port the USB code to other platforms by only using
one set of memory functions for clearing and copying memory. None of
the memory copies are overlapping. This means using bcopy() is not
required.
- Fix a compile warning when USB_HAVE_BUSDMA=0
- Add missing semicolon in avr32dci.
- Update some comments.
MFC after: 1 week
if_alloctype was used to store the origional interface type. Take
advantage of this change by removing all existing uses of if_free_type()
in favor of if_free().
MFC after: 1 Month
- fix other errors introduced when committing r226436
- add 'function' to a sentence where it makes sense
Submitted by: delphij
Submitted by: dougb
Submitted by: jhb
Approved by: dougb
Approved by: jhb
the length of frame should be treated as multiple of 4. Actual
frame length is set in the TX header. The TX header position
should be aligned on 4 byte boundary and actual frame start
position should be aligned on 4 byte boundary as well. This means
we need 4(TX header length) + 3(frame length fixup) additional free
space in TX buffer in addition to actual frame length.
Make sure TX handler check these additional bytes.
ae_tx_avail_size() returns actual free space in TX buffer to ease
the calculation of available TX buffer space in caller. While I'm
here, replace magic number to appropriate sizeof operator to
enhance readability.
This change should fix controller lockup issue happened under
certain conditions but it still does not fix watchdog timeout. It
seems the watchdog timeout is side-effect of TxS and TxD
mismatches. The root cause of TxD/TxD mismatch is not known yet but
it looks like silicon bug. I guess driver may have to reinitialize
controller whenever it sees TxS and TxD mismatches but leave it as
it was at this moment.
PR: kern/145918
I need to investigate this a little closer, but it seems that in noisy
environments the NF load takes longer than 5 * DELAY(10) and this is
messing up future NF calibrations. (The background: NF calibrations
begin at the value programmed in after the load has completed, so
if this is never loaded in, the NF calibrations only ever start at
the currently calibrated NF value, rather than starting at something
high (say -50.)
More investigation about the effect on 11n RX and calibration results
are needed.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
The AR5416 MAC (which shows up in the AR5008, AR9001, AR9002 devices) has
issues with PCI transactions on SMP machines. This work-around enforces
that register access is serialised through a (global for now) spinlock.
This should stop the hangs people have seen with the AR5416 PCI devices
on SMP hosts.
Obtained by: Linux, Atheros
ensuring that everything is really, truly consistent.
This fixes certain cases where one will see various:
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffXXXXXXXXXX TIMEOUT AFTER XX SECONDS
MFC after: 3 days
Submitted by: scottl
Ok'ed by: jhb
it's cloned and that clone is retransmitted. This means that the
ath_buf pointer squirreled away on the baw window array is suddenly
wrong and was causing all kinds of console output.
This updates the pointer in that particular BAW slot to the new
ath_buf after ensuring that:
* the new and old buffers have the same seqno;
* the current slot pointer matches the old buffer pointer.
This quietens the debugging output (again), restoring said debugging
to only signify when a broken condition has occured.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
This is a bit hackish and should be made more generic (ie, support more than
two hard-coded performance counter+config register pairs) so it can be used
for mips74k and other chips.
All this does is process the initial interrupt event. It doesn't (yet) handle
callgraph events, so even if you route the exception/interrupt to this routine
and flip the bit on, it will hang and crash pmc unless you disable callgraph
support when you enable a sample based PMC.
to fetch the current channel busy statistics, rather than duplicating
it here.
This forms the (very crude) basis for doing basic channel surveying.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
enabled if required by STA operation.
This quietens a lot of OFDM errors seen in hostap mode, where
there are no beacon RSSI levels to tune the dynamic range of the
baseband.
This may reduce reception range at the fringes, but does increase
stability.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
The 5ghz hostap mode (where DFS is being done) requires ANI to be disabled
or the radar detection parameters don't work as advertised (as they're based
on signal strength level, and tweaking ANI affects the signal strangth,
dynamic range and power increase the baseband is looking for in order to
detect it as a "signal".)
Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
* If we fall through from an ANI command (eg because it's out of range,
or it's disabled) then fall through to the next ANI command rather then
being stuck there.
* Fix some off-by-one comparisons, meaning the final level in some parameters
were never tweaked.
Obtained from: Atheros
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
This forces a full reset of the baseband/radio and seems needed to clear
some issues (with Merlin at least) when the baseband gets confused in a
very noisy environment.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
RX clear, RX extension clear.
This is useful for estimating channel business.
The same routines should be written for AR5210->AR5212 where appopriate.
Obtained from: Atheros
some unmerged interrupt status debugging code from my branch.
* Add ah_intrstate[8] which will have the record of the last
call to ath_hal_getintr().
* Wrap the KTR code behind ATH_KTR_INTR_DEBUG.
* Add the HAL interrupt debugging behind AH_INTERRUPT_DEBUGGING.
This is only done for the AR5416 and later NICs but it will be
trivial to add to the earlier NICs if required.
Neither are enabled by default, although to minimise HAL binary
API differences, the ah_intrstate[] array is always compiled into
the ath_hal struct.
for Atheros AR5416 and later wireless devices.
This is a very large commit - the complete history can be
found in the user/adrian/if_ath_tx branch.
Legacy (ie, pre-AR5416) devices also use the per-software
TXQ support and (in theory) can support non-aggregation
ADDBA sessions. However, the net80211 stack doesn't currently
support this.
In summary:
TX path:
* queued frames normally go onto a per-TID, per-node queue
* some special frames (eg ADDBA control frames) are thrown
directly onto the relevant hardware queue so they can
go out before any software queued frames are queued.
* Add methods to create, suspend, resume and tear down an
aggregation session.
* Add in software retransmission of both normal and aggregate
frames.
* Add in completion handling of aggregate frames, including
parsing the block ack bitmap provided by the hardware.
* Write an aggregation function which can assemble frames into
an aggregate based on the selected rate control and channel
configuration.
* The per-TID queues are locked based on their target hardware
TX queue. This matches what ath9k/atheros does, and thus
simplified porting over some of the aggregation logic.
* When doing TX aggregation, stick the sequence number allocation
in the TX path rather than net80211 TX path, and protect it
by the TXQ lock.
Rate control:
* Delay rate control selection until the frame is about to
be queued to the hardware, so retried frames can have their
rate control choices changed. Frames with a static rate
control selection have that applied before each TX, just
to simplify the TX path (ie, not have "static" and "dynamic"
rate control special cased.)
* Teach ath_rate_sample about aggregates - both completion and
errors.
* Add an EWMA for tracking what the current "good" MCS rate is
based on failure rates.
Misc:
* Introduce a bunch of dirty hacks and workarounds so TID mapping
and net80211 frame inspection can be kept out of the net80211
layer. Because of the way this code works (and it's from Atheros
and Linux ath9k), there is a consistent, 1:1 mapping between
TID and AC. So we need to ensure that frames going to a specific
TID will _always_ end up on the right AC, and vice versa, or the
completion/locking will simply get very confused. I plan on
addressing this mess in the future.
Known issues:
* There is no BAR frame transmission just yet. A whole lot of
tidying up needs to occur before BAR frame TX can occur in the
"correct" place - ie, once the TID TX queue has been drained.
* Interface reset/purge/etc results in frames in the TX and RX
queues being removed. This creates holes in the sequence numbers
being assigned and the TX/RX AMPDU code (on either side) just
hangs.
* There's no filtered frame support at the present moment, so
stations going into power saving mode will simply have a number
of frames dropped - likely resulting in a traffic "hang".
* Raw frame TX is going to just not function with 11n aggregation.
Likely this needs to be modified to always override the sequence
number if the frame is going into an aggregation session.
However, general raw frame injection currently doesn't work in
general in net80211, so let's just ignore this for now until
this is sorted out.
* HT protection is just not implemented and won't be until the above
is sorted out. In addition, the AR5416 has issues RTS protecting
large aggregates (anything >8k), so the work around needs to be
ported and tested. Thus, this will be put on hold until the above
work is complete.
* The rate control module 'sample' is the only currently supported
module; onoe/amrr haven't been tested and have likely bit rotted
a little. I'll follow up with some commits to make them work again
for non-11n rates, but they won't be updated to handle 11n and
aggregation. If someone wishes to do so then they're welcome to
send along patches.
* .. and "sample" doesn't really do a good job of 11n TX. Specifically,
the metrics used (packet TX time and failure/success rates) isn't as
useful for 11n. It's likely that it should be extended to take into
account the aggregate throughput possible and then choose a rate
which maximises that. Ie, it may be acceptable for a higher MCS rate
with a higher failure to be used if it gives a more acceptable
throughput/latency then a lower MCS rate @ a lower error rate.
Again, patches will be gratefully accepted.
Because of this, ATH_ENABLE_11N is still not enabled by default.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
preparation for TX aggregation.
* Add in logic which calls ath_buf bf->bf_comp if it's set.
This allows for AMPDU (and RIFS, and FF, if someone desires) code
to handle completion - which includes freeing subframes, retransmitting
subframes, etc.
* Break out the buffer free, buffer busy/unbusy default completion handler
code into separate functions. This allows bf_comp methods to free and
unbusy each subframe ath_buf as required.
* Break out the statistics update code into a separate function, just
to clean up the TX completion path a little.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
descriptor, rather than using the maths involving bf_desc[bf_nseg - 1].
When doing TX aggregation, the status will be updated in the -final-
descriptor of the -final- subframe in an aggregate. Thus bf_lastds
may point to the last descriptor in a completely different ath_buf.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
* Immediately return NULL if a buffer isn't available;
* Track the "buffers not available" count;
* Clear some fields used for tx aggregation;
* Add ath_buf_clone() which clones the majority of buffer state.
This is needed when retransmission of a "busy" buffer is required.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
Add some code (which is currently disabled) which modifies the group
multicast key cache behaviour. I haven't yet figured out what the
exact/correct behaviour is so I'm leaving it disabled. It's worth
investigating and "correcting", especially for future work with
mesh/ibss and encryption.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
* When doing software TX queue handling and flush, it's possible
that the deletion of a VAP (eg a STA shutdown) will queue a
"STA Disassociate" frame whilst the interface is being deleted.
The VAP is then deleted, and the frame ends up being queued
to a node that is freed before it can be TX'ed. Things go awry
at this point.
There's no way at the present to avoid freeing the underlying node
when the vap is being deleted. It's too late in the game.
I suspect the real fix is to make sure the frame is software
queued with no completion information somehow, so it doesn't
link back to a node whose underlying VAP has been freed.
For now, we'll just have to do this.
* Add some comments showing what's going on.
* Move an instance of the ATH_LOCK() around to protect the interrupt
set. I'll worry about changing that to a PCU lock later on once
the 11n code is in the tree.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
and interface resets to be marked as ATH_RESET_DEFAULT, ATH_RESET_FULL,
ATH_RESET_NOLOSS.
Currently a reset is still a reset - ie, all tx/rx frames in the hardware
queues are purged. This means that those frames will be lost to the 11n TX
and RX aggregation state tracking, breaking AMPDU sessions.
The (eventual) new semantics:
* ATH_RESET_DEFAULT:
full reset, this is the default for reset situations
which I haven't yet figured out what they should be.
* ATH_RESET_FULL:
A full reset - for things such as channel changes.
* ATH_RESET_NOLOSS:
Don't flush TX/RX queues - handle pending RX frames and leave TX
frames where they are; restart TX DMA from where it was.
* Change ath_rx_proc() to ath_rx_tasklet(); make that the taskqueue function.
This way (eventually) ath_rx_proc() can be called from elsewhere in the
packet reset/processing queue so frames aren't just "flushed" during
interface resets/reconfigure. This breaks 802.11n RX aggregation tracking.
* Extend ath_tx_proc() to take a 'resched' flag, which marks whether to
reschedule further RX PCU reads or not.
* Change ath_tx_processq() to take a "dosched" flag, which will eventually
be used to indicate whether to reschedule the software TX scheduler.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
allocator with UMA backed jumbo allocator by default. Previously
ti(4) used sf_buf(9) interface for jumbo buffers but it was broken
at this moment such that enabling jumbo frame caused instant panic.
Due to the nature of sf_buf(9) it heavily relies on VM changes but
it seems ti(4) was not received much blessing from VM gurus. I
don't understand VM magic and implications used in driver either.
Switching to UMA backed jumbo allocator like other network drivers
will make jumbo frame work on ti(4).
While I'm here, fully allocate all RX buffers. This means ti(4) now
uses 512 RX buffer and 1024 mini RX buffers.
To use sf_buf(9) interface for jumbo buffers, introduce a new
'options TI_SF_BUF_JUMBO'. If it is proven that sf_buf(9) is better
for jumbo buffers, interesting developers can fix the issue in
future.
ti(4) still needs more bus_dma(9) cleanups and should use separate
DMA tag/map for each ring(standard, jumbo, mini, command, event
etc) but it should work on all platforms except PAE.
Special thanks to Jay[1] who provided complete remote debugging
access.
Tested by: Jay Borkenhagen <jayb <> braeburn dot org > [1]
* Close down some of the kickpcu races, where the interrupt handler
can and will run concurrently with the taskqueue.
* Close down the TXQ active/completed race between the interrupt
handler and the concurrently running tx completion taskqueue
function.
* Add some tx and rx interrupt count tracking, for debugging.
* Fix the kickpcu logic in ath_rx_proc() to not simply drain and
restart the TX queue - instead, assume the hardware isn't
(too) confused and just restart RX DMA. This may break on
previous chipsets, so if it does I'll add a HAL flag and
conditionally handle this (ie, for broken chipsets, I'll
just restore the "stop PCU / flush things / restart PCU"
logic.)
* Misc stuff
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
A bunch of the 11n TX aggregation logic wants to traverse lists of buffers
in various ways. In order to provide O(1) behaviour in this instance,
use TAILQs.
This does blow out the memory footprint and CPU cycles slightly for some
of these operations. I may convert some of these back to STAILQs once
the rest of the software transmit queue handling has been stabilised.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
* Use 64 bit integer types for the sample rate statistics.
When TX'ing 11n aggregates, a 32 bit counter will overflow in a few
hours due to the high packet throughput.
* Create a default label of "" rather than defaulting to "Mb" - that way
if a rate hasn't yet been selected, it won't say "-1 Mb".
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
* Add a PCU lock, which isn't currently used but will eventually be
used to serialise some of the driver access.
* Add in all the software TX aggregation state, that's kept per-node
and per-TID.
* Add in the software and aggregation state to ath_buf.
* Add in hooks to ath_softc for aggregation state and the (upcoming)
aggregation TX state calls.
* Add / fix the HAL access macros.
Obtained from: Linux, ath9k
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
o Do not blindly UP controller when MTU is changed. Reinitialize
controller only if driver is running.
o Remove useless ti_stop() in ti_watchdog() since ti_init_locked()
always invokes ti_stop().
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
checksum offloading and VLAN hardware tag insertion/stripping from
the currently enabled hardware offloading capabilities.
Previously if_hwassist, which was initialized to TX/RX checksum
offloading, was blindly used to enable both TX and RX checksum
offloading such that disabling either TX or RX checksum offloading
was not possible.
ti(4) controllers support TX/RX checksum offloading with VLAN
tagging so announce TX/RX checksum offloading capability over VLAN
to vlan(4).
Make VLAN hardware tag insertion/stripping honors currently enabled
interface capability instead of blindly enabling VLAN hardware
tagging. This change allows disabling hardware support of VLAN tag.
Because ti(4) supports VLAN oversized frames, make network stack
know the capability by setting if_hdrlen.
While I'm here, rewrite SIOCSIFCAP handler and make sure to
reinitialize controller whenever TX/RX checksum offloading and VLAN
hardware tagging option is changed. The requirement of controller
reinitialization comes from the limitation of Tigon I/II firmware.
Tigon I/II firmware requires all related RCBs should be
reinitialized whenever any of its hardware offloading capabilities
change.
vlan(4) is also notified whenever the parent interface's capability
changes such that it can correctly handle TX/RX checksum offloading
based on parent interface's enabled offloading capabilities.
RX checksum offloading handler was changed to make upper stack use
controller computed partial checksum value. Previously, ti(4) just
set the computed value for any frames(IPv4, IPv6) and the value was
not used in upper stack because driver didn't set CSUM_DATA_VALID
such that upper network stack had to recompute checksum of TCP/UDP
packets. I have no idea how this was not noticed for a long time.
With this change, upper network stack does not have to fully
recompute the checksum such that calculating pseudo checksum based
on partial checksum is sufficient to know whether received packet's
checksum is correct or not. However, I don't know why ti(4) does
not have controller compute pseudo checksum as controller has
ability to do it. I'm just guessing enabling that feature could
trigger a firmware bug or could be slower than computing it on host
side so just leave it as it was.
In order not to produce false positives, ti(4) now checks whether
controller actually computed IP or TCP/UDP checksum by checking
ti_flags field.
state changes. Hide superfluous link up/down message under
bootverbose since if_link_state_change(9) shows that information.
While I'm here, change baudrate with the resolved speed of the
established link instead of blindly setting it 1G. Unfortunately,
it seems there is no way to differentiate 10/100Mbps from
non-gigabit link so just assume we established a 100Mbps link if
current link is not a gigabit link.
This was broken in r175872.
We have a UMA backed jumbo allocator and that is much better
implementation than having a local jumbo buffer allocator in
driver. This local allocator would be removed in near future but
fixing build before removal wouldn't be a bad idea.
