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iwlwifi: use GFP_KERNEL to allocate Rx SKB memory
authorZhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:52:33 +0000 (16:52 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:43:45 +0000 (10:43 -0800)
commit35843973c7b58622abd97f11a8658ab4134698f9
tree359937cfb5f59b820b356ef15e1baf8d2d958f9a
parent0f6645286f4c0b568d83a240a73f55ce618dd8aa
iwlwifi: use GFP_KERNEL to allocate Rx SKB memory

commit f1bc4ac61f2c08515afd80c6dc3962aa6d0b138b upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c