From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pavel@ucw.cz
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, mhocko@kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jcliburn@gmail.com,
chris.snook@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
linux-mm@kvack.org, nic-devel@qualcomm.com, ronangeles@gmail.com,
ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] atl1c: Improve driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:21:40 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151204.112140.1465149588813636971.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151204081127.GA29367@amd>
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:11:27 +0100
>> >> if (unlikely(!ring_header->desc)) {
>> >> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "pci_alloc_consistend failed\n");
>> >> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get memory for DMA buffer\n");
>> >> goto err_nomem;
>> >> }
>> >> memset(ring_header->desc, 0, ring_header->size);
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > So this memset() will really require a different patch to get removed ?
>> >
>> > Sigh, not sure why I review patches.
>>
>> Agreed, please use dma_zalloc_coherent() and kill that memset().
>
> Ok, updated. I'll also add cc: stable, because it makes notebooks with
> affected chipset unusable.
Networking patches do not use CC: stable, instead you simply ask me
to queue it up and then I batch submit networking fixes to -stable
periodically myself.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-04 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-26 16:34 4.3+: Atheros ethernet fails after resume from s2ram, due to order 4 allocation Pavel Machek
2015-11-26 21:56 ` Francois Romieu
2015-11-27 8:20 ` Michal Hocko
2015-11-28 14:50 ` Pavel Machek
2015-11-28 14:51 ` [PATCH] Improve Atheros ethernet driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation Pavel Machek
2015-11-29 21:58 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-11-30 13:21 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-01 20:35 ` David Miller
2015-12-02 22:43 ` Chris Snook
2015-12-03 7:49 ` Pavel Machek
2015-12-03 8:16 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-03 19:26 ` Chris Snook
2015-11-30 17:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-12-01 20:36 ` David Miller
2015-12-03 15:59 ` Pavel Machek
2015-12-03 15:59 ` [PATCH net] atl1c: Improve " Pavel Machek
2015-12-03 16:13 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-03 17:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-12-03 17:32 ` David Miller
2015-12-04 8:11 ` Pavel Machek
2015-12-04 16:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-12-04 21:30 ` Pavel Machek
2015-12-04 22:01 ` David Miller
2015-12-04 8:50 ` Pavel Machek
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