[PATCH] net: ethernet: et131x: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when allocating tx_ring->tcb_ring

[PATCH] net: ethernet: et131x: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when allocating tx_ring->tcb_ring

[Christophe JAILLET]

There is no good reason to use GFP_ATOMIC here. Other memory allocations
are performed with GFP_KERNEL (see other 'dma_alloc_coherent()' below and
'kzalloc()' in 'et131x_rx_dma_memory_alloc()')

Use GFP_KERNEL which should be enough.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/agere/et131x.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/agere/et131x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/agere/et131x.c
index e43d922f043e..174344c450af 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/agere/et131x.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/agere/et131x.c
@@ -2362,7 +2362,7 @@ static int et131x_tx_dma_memory_alloc(struct et131x_adapter *adapter)
 
 	/* Allocate memory for the TCB's (Transmit Control Block) */
 	tx_ring->tcb_ring = kcalloc(NUM_TCB, sizeof(struct tcb),
-				    GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA);
+				    GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
 	if (!tx_ring->tcb_ring)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.20.1

Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: et131x: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when allocating tx_ring->tcb_ring

[David Miller]

From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:38:42 +0200

> There is no good reason to use GFP_ATOMIC here. Other memory allocations
> are performed with GFP_KERNEL (see other 'dma_alloc_coherent()' below and
> 'kzalloc()' in 'et131x_rx_dma_memory_alloc()')
> 
> Use GFP_KERNEL which should be enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

Applied, thanks.

Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: et131x: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when allocating tx_ring->tcb_ring

[Jesse Brandeburg]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:38:42 +0200
Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> There is no good reason to use GFP_ATOMIC here. Other memory allocations
> are performed with GFP_KERNEL (see other 'dma_alloc_coherent()' below and
> 'kzalloc()' in 'et131x_rx_dma_memory_alloc()')
> 
> Use GFP_KERNEL which should be enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

Sure, but generally I'd say GFP_ATOMIC is ok if you're in an init path
and you can afford to have the allocation thread sleep while memory is
being found by the kernel.

Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>

Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: et131x: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when allocating tx_ring->tcb_ring

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 10:23:46PM -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:38:42 +0200
> Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> > There is no good reason to use GFP_ATOMIC here. Other memory allocations
> > are performed with GFP_KERNEL (see other 'dma_alloc_coherent()' below and
> > 'kzalloc()' in 'et131x_rx_dma_memory_alloc()')
> > 
> > Use GFP_KERNEL which should be enough.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> 
> Sure, but generally I'd say GFP_ATOMIC is ok if you're in an init path
> and you can afford to have the allocation thread sleep while memory is
> being found by the kernel.

That's not what GFP_ATOMIC means.  GFP_ATOMIC _will not_ sleep.  GFP_KERNEL
will.