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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/name_distr.c | |
| 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/name_distr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/tipc/name_distr.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/name_distr.c b/net/tipc/name_distr.c index c1cfd92de17a..23f8899e0f8c 100644 --- a/net/tipc/name_distr.c +++ b/net/tipc/name_distr.c @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *named_prepare_buf(struct net *net, u32 type, u32 size, u32 dest) { struct tipc_net *tn = net_generic(net, tipc_net_id); - struct sk_buff *buf = tipc_buf_acquire(INT_H_SIZE + size); + struct sk_buff *buf = tipc_buf_acquire(INT_H_SIZE + size, GFP_ATOMIC); struct tipc_msg *msg; if (buf != NULL) { |