[PATCH] RDMA/cxgb4: replace __GFP_NOFAIL with GFP_ATOMIC

From: Ethan Zhao
Date: Wed Dec 11 2013 - 09:59:24 EST


In function _c4iw_write_mem_dma_aligned(), alloc_skb() with
GFP_ATOMIC is enough, has failure handling there already assume
it could fail.
change the allocation in del_filter_wr() and set_filter_wr() from
could block forever to nonblocking too. becuase of blocking allocation
might cause deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
index 4cb8eb2..ad5b663 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static int _c4iw_write_mem_dma_aligned(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 addr,
c4iw_init_wr_wait(&wr_wait);
wr_len = roundup(sizeof(*req) + sizeof(*sgl), 16);

- skb = alloc_skb(wr_len, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+ skb = alloc_skb(wr_len, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!skb)
return -ENOMEM;
set_wr_txq(skb, CPL_PRIORITY_CONTROL, 0);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c
index c73cabd..f2ee8a7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c
@@ -1184,15 +1184,15 @@ static int set_filter_wr(struct adapter *adapter, int fidx)
return -EAGAIN;
if (t4_l2t_set_switching(adapter, f->l2t, f->fs.vlan,
f->fs.eport, f->fs.dmac)) {
- cxgb4_l2t_release(f->l2t);
- f->l2t = NULL;
- return -ENOMEM;
+ goto set_filter_nomem;
}
}

ftid = adapter->tids.ftid_base + fidx;

- skb = alloc_skb(sizeof(*fwr), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+ skb = alloc_skb(sizeof(*fwr), GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!skb)
+ goto set_filter_nomem;
fwr = (struct fw_filter_wr *)__skb_put(skb, sizeof(*fwr));
memset(fwr, 0, sizeof(*fwr));

@@ -1276,6 +1276,13 @@ static int set_filter_wr(struct adapter *adapter, int fidx)
set_wr_txq(skb, CPL_PRIORITY_CONTROL, f->fs.val.iport & 0x3);
t4_ofld_send(adapter, skb);
return 0;
+
+set_filter_nomem:
+ if (f->l2t) {
+ cxgb4_l2t_release(f->l2t);
+ f->l2t = NULL;
+ }
+ return -ENOMEM;
}

/* Delete the filter at a specified index.
@@ -1290,7 +1297,9 @@ static int del_filter_wr(struct adapter *adapter, int fidx)
len = sizeof(*fwr);
ftid = adapter->tids.ftid_base + fidx;

- skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+ skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!skb)
+ return -ENOMEM;
fwr = (struct fw_filter_wr *)__skb_put(skb, len);
t4_mk_filtdelwr(ftid, fwr, adapter->sge.fw_evtq.abs_id);

--
1.8.3.4 (Apple Git-47)

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