From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45217 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758404AbcATXLC (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:11:02 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek , Michal Hocko , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 4.1 15/43] atl1c: Improve driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:10:22 -0800 Message-Id: <20160120215929.130697631@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160120215926.787430744@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160120215926.787430744@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Pavel Machek [ Upstream commit f2a3771ae8aca879c32336c76ad05a017629bae2 ] atl1c driver is doing order-4 allocation with GFP_ATOMIC priority. That often breaks networking after resume. Switch to GFP_KERNEL. Still not ideal, but should be significantly better. atl1c_setup_ring_resources() is called from .open() function, and already uses GFP_KERNEL, so this change is safe. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c @@ -1014,13 +1014,12 @@ static int atl1c_setup_ring_resources(st sizeof(struct atl1c_recv_ret_status) * rx_desc_count + 8 * 4; - ring_header->desc = pci_alloc_consistent(pdev, ring_header->size, - &ring_header->dma); + ring_header->desc = dma_zalloc_coherent(&pdev->dev, ring_header->size, + &ring_header->dma, GFP_KERNEL); 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); /* init TPD ring */ tpd_ring[0].dma = roundup(ring_header->dma, 8);