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authorParthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>2017-01-13 15:46:25 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-01-16 13:31:53 -0500
commit57d5f64d83ab5b5a5118b1597386dd76eaf4340d (patch)
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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.c2
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) {