iwlwifi: do not use GFP_DMA in iwl_tx_queue_init
GFP_DMA is not necessary for the iwlwifi hardware and it can cause
allocation failures and/or invoke the OOM killer on lots of systems.
For reference:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459709
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
index d82823b..ff879d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
continue;
}
- txq->cmd[i] = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
+ txq->cmd[i] = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!txq->cmd[i])
return -ENOMEM;
}