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[3.16.y-ckt,stable] Patch "atl1c: Improve driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1451928794-2854-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques Jan. 4, 2016, 5:33 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    atl1c: Improve driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt22.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From 73f0d95f1afa43ab468fa9c48412260a84d1e2ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:50:00 +0100
Subject: atl1c: Improve driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation

commit f2a3771ae8aca879c32336c76ad05a017629bae2 upstream.

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 <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
index e11bf18fbbd1..50c705fed154 100644
--- 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(struct atl1c_adapter *adapter)
 		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);