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| author | Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com> | 2017-01-13 15:46:25 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-01-16 13:31:53 -0500 |
| commit | 57d5f64d83ab5b5a5118b1597386dd76eaf4340d (patch) | |
| tree | d0dbe9d1335b2835b42d78ebe2525a9b3f97c768 /net/tipc/msg.h | |
| parent | 34c55cf2fc75f8bf6ba87df321038c064cf2d426 (diff) | |
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tipc: allocate user memory with GFP_KERNEL flag
Until now, we allocate memory always with GFP_ATOMIC flag.
When the system is under memory pressure and a user tries to send,
the send fails due to low memory. However, the user application
can wait for free memory if we allocate it using GFP_KERNEL flag.
In this commit, we use allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL for all user
allocation.
Reported-by: Rune Torgersen <runet@innovsys.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/msg.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/tipc/msg.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/msg.h b/net/tipc/msg.h index 8d408612ffa4..2c3dc38abf9c 100644 --- a/net/tipc/msg.h +++ b/net/tipc/msg.h @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ static inline bool msg_is_reset(struct tipc_msg *hdr) return (msg_user(hdr) == LINK_PROTOCOL) && (msg_type(hdr) == RESET_MSG); } -struct sk_buff *tipc_buf_acquire(u32 size); +struct sk_buff *tipc_buf_acquire(u32 size, gfp_t gfp); bool tipc_msg_validate(struct sk_buff *skb); bool tipc_msg_reverse(u32 own_addr, struct sk_buff **skb, int err); void tipc_msg_init(u32 own_addr, struct tipc_msg *m, u32 user, u32 type, |