ath9k: Get rid of unnecessary ATOMIC memory alloc during init time
We can sleep for memory during init time and so allocating rx buffers,
descriptro buffers with GFP_KERNEL should help us to get rid of transient
alloc fails.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c
index 3df5c78..9439cb3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
return (tsf & ~0x7fff) | rstamp;
}
-static struct sk_buff *ath_rxbuf_alloc(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 len)
+static struct sk_buff *ath_rxbuf_alloc(struct ath_softc *sc, u32 len, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
u32 off;
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
* Unfortunately this means we may get 8 KB here from the
* kernel... and that is actually what is observed on some
* systems :( */
- skb = dev_alloc_skb(len + sc->cachelsz - 1);
+ skb = __dev_alloc_skb(len + sc->cachelsz - 1, gfp_mask);
if (skb != NULL) {
off = ((unsigned long) skb->data) % sc->cachelsz;
if (off != 0)
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
}
list_for_each_entry(bf, &sc->rx.rxbuf, list) {
- skb = ath_rxbuf_alloc(sc, sc->rx.bufsize);
+ skb = ath_rxbuf_alloc(sc, sc->rx.bufsize, GFP_KERNEL);
if (skb == NULL) {
error = -ENOMEM;
break;
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@
/* Ensure we always have an skb to requeue once we are done
* processing the current buffer's skb */
- requeue_skb = ath_rxbuf_alloc(sc, sc->rx.bufsize);
+ requeue_skb = ath_rxbuf_alloc(sc, sc->rx.bufsize, GFP_ATOMIC);
/* If there is no memory we ignore the current RX'd frame,
* tell hardware it can give us a new frame using the old