netdev - [PATCH net-next 5/6] qlcnic: Don't use kzalloc unncecessarily for allocating large chunk of memory

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Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2015 07:17:06 -0400
From:	Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@...gic.com>
To:	<davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <Dept-GELinuxNICDev@...gic.com>,
	Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@...gic.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 5/6] qlcnic: Don't use kzalloc unncecessarily for allocating large chunk of memory

From: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@...gic.com>

Driver allocates a large chunk of temporary buffer using kzalloc
to copy FW image. As there is no real need of this memory to be
physically contiguous, use vzalloc instead.

Signed-off-by: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@...gic.com>
---
 .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c  |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c
index 753ea8b..bf89216 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c
@@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ static int qlcnic_83xx_copy_fw_file(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter)
 	size_t size;
 	u64 addr;
 
-	temp = kzalloc(fw->size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	temp = vzalloc(fw->size);
 	if (!temp) {
 		release_firmware(fw);
 		fw_info->fw = NULL;
@@ -1430,7 +1430,7 @@ static int qlcnic_83xx_copy_fw_file(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter)
 exit:
 	release_firmware(fw);
 	fw_info->fw = NULL;
-	kfree(temp);
+	vfree(temp);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.5.6

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