From: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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 <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---

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;
 	}