From: John W. Linville Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:07:18 +0000 (-0400) Subject: iwlwifi: do not use GFP_DMA in iwl_tx_queue_init X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc6~49^2~12 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=49898852e6aa8a6de9a5bc0bab2cf305b3583bbf;p=linux-2.6 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 --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c index d82823b5c8..ff879d4662 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ static int iwl_tx_queue_init(struct iwl_priv *priv, continue; } - txq->cmd[i] = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA); + txq->cmd[i] = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!txq->cmd[i]) return -ENOMEM; }