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authorStefan Roscher <ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-05-13 16:52:42 -0700
committerRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>2009-05-13 16:52:42 -0700
commitc94f156f63c835ffc02b686f9d4238b106f31a5d (patch)
tree2b9e4a8543259fd077f79624838d93b2587e3f73 /drivers
parentbf31a1a02eb28d9bda0bb74345df7889faeb7335 (diff)
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IB/ehca: Fall back to vmalloc() for big allocations
In case of large queue pairs there is the possibillity of allocation failures due to memory fragmentation when using kmalloc(). To ensure the memory is allocated even if kmalloc() can not find chunks which are big enough, we fall back to allocating the memory with vmalloc(). Signed-off-by: Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c17
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c
index a260559..1227c59 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c
@@ -222,8 +222,11 @@ int ipz_queue_ctor(struct ehca_pd *pd, struct ipz_queue *queue,
/* allocate queue page pointers */
queue->queue_pages = kmalloc(nr_of_pages * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!queue->queue_pages) {
- ehca_gen_err("Couldn't allocate queue page list");
- return 0;
+ queue->queue_pages = vmalloc(nr_of_pages * sizeof(void *));
+ if (!queue->queue_pages) {
+ ehca_gen_err("Couldn't allocate queue page list");
+ return 0;
+ }
}
memset(queue->queue_pages, 0, nr_of_pages * sizeof(void *));
@@ -240,7 +243,10 @@ int ipz_queue_ctor(struct ehca_pd *pd, struct ipz_queue *queue,
ipz_queue_ctor_exit0:
ehca_gen_err("Couldn't alloc pages queue=%p "
"nr_of_pages=%x", queue, nr_of_pages);
- kfree(queue->queue_pages);
+ if (is_vmalloc_addr(queue->queue_pages))
+ vfree(queue->queue_pages);
+ else
+ kfree(queue->queue_pages);
return 0;
}
@@ -262,7 +268,10 @@ int ipz_queue_dtor(struct ehca_pd *pd, struct ipz_queue *queue)
free_page((unsigned long)queue->queue_pages[i]);
}
- kfree(queue->queue_pages);
+ if (is_vmalloc_addr(queue->queue_pages))
+ vfree(queue->queue_pages);
+ else
+ kfree(queue->queue_pages);
return 1;
}
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