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authorZhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>2008-12-17 16:52:33 +0800
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-12-19 15:23:41 -0500
commitf1bc4ac61f2c08515afd80c6dc3962aa6d0b138b (patch)
treed9c765de135de818dbf12d5910d38658cac5be47 /COPYING
parent4087f6f68cdbd2845c7e54236bae1b058a7b827b (diff)
iwlwifi: use GFP_KERNEL to allocate Rx SKB memory
Previously we allocate Rx SKB with GFP_ATOMIC flag. This is because we need to hold a spinlock to protect the two rx_used and rx_free lists operation in the rxq. spin_lock(); ... element = rxq->rx_used.next; element->skb = alloc_skb(..., GFP_ATOMIC); list_del(element); list_add_tail(&element->list, &rxq->rx_free); ... spin_unlock(); After spliting the rx_used delete and rx_free insert into two operations, we don't require the skb allocation in an atomic context any more (the function itself is scheduled in a workqueue). spin_lock(); ... element = rxq->rx_used.next; list_del(element); ... spin_unlock(); ... element->skb = alloc_skb(..., GFP_KERNEL); ... spin_lock() ... list_add_tail(&element->list, &rxq->rx_free); ... spin_unlock(); This patch should fix the "iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers" warning we see recently. Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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