2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Eli Cohen commit 87afd448b186c885d67a08b7417cd46253b6a9d6 upstream Current memfree FW has a bug which in some cases, assumes that ICM pages passed to it are cleared. This patch uses __GFP_ZERO to allocate all ICM pages passed to the FW. Once firmware with a fix is released, we can make the workaround conditional on firmware version. This fixes the bug reported by Arthur Kepner here: http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2008-May/050026.html [ Rewritten to be a one-liner using __GFP_ZERO instead of vmap()ing ICM memory and memset()ing it to 0. - Roland ] Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c @@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ static int mthca_alloc_icm_pages(struct { struct page *page; - page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order); + /* + * Use __GFP_ZERO because buggy firmware assumes ICM pages are + * cleared, and subtle failures are seen if they aren't. + */ + page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO, order); if (!page) return -ENOMEM; -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/