Commit 0ab2fcd6 authored by Jag Raman's avatar Jag Raman Committed by David S. Miller

sparc64: mdesc: use __GFP_REPEAT action modifier for VM allocation

During MDESC handle allocation, use the __GFP_REPEAT flag instead of
__GFP_NOFAIL. If memory is not available, the caller expects a NULL
pointer instead of waiting until memory is allocated.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLiam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarShannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 411cb4a0
......@@ -205,12 +205,10 @@ static struct mdesc_handle *mdesc_kmalloc(unsigned int mdesc_size)
handle_size = (sizeof(struct mdesc_handle) -
sizeof(struct mdesc_hdr) +
mdesc_size);
base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT);
if (!base)
return NULL;
/*
* Allocation has to succeed because mdesc update would be missed
* and such events are not retransmitted.
*/
base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
addr = (unsigned long)base;
addr = (addr + 15UL) & ~15UL;
hp = (struct mdesc_handle *) addr;
......
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