iwlwifi: pcie: allocate smaller dev_cmd for TX headers
As noted in the previous commit, due to the way we allocate the dev_cmd headers with 324 byte size, and 4/8 byte alignment, the part we use of them (bytes 20..40-68) could still cross a page and thus 2^32 boundary. Address this by using alignment to ensure that the allocation cannot cross a page boundary, on hardware that's affected. To make that not cause more memory consumption, reduce the size of the allocations to the necessary size - we go from 324 bytes in each allocation to 60/68 on gen2 depending on family, and ~120 or so on gen1 (so on gen1 it's a pure reduction in size, since we don't need alignment there). To avoid size and clearing issues, add a new structure that's just the header, and use kmem_cache_zalloc(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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