netdev - [PATCH 1/1] ehea: Allocate stats buffer with GFP

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:59:12 -0500
From:	Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	ossthema@...ibm.com
Cc:	osstklei@...ibm.com, raisch@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ehea: Allocate stats buffer with GFP_KERNEL


Since ehea_get_stats calls ehea_h_query_ehea_port, which
can sleep, we can also sleep when allocating a page in
this function. This fixes some memory allocation failure
warnings seen under low memory conditions.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c~ehea_get_stats_gfp drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
--- linux-2.6/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c~ehea_get_stats_gfp	2010-06-28 09:46:51.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6-bjking1/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c	2010-06-28 09:46:51.000000000 -0500
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static struct net_device_stats *ehea_get
 
 	memset(stats, 0, sizeof(*stats));
 
-	cb2 = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
+	cb2 = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!cb2) {
 		ehea_error("no mem for cb2");
 		goto out;
_
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