From c94f156f63c835ffc02b686f9d4238b106f31a5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Roscher Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 16:52:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Fall back to vmalloc() for big allocations In case of large queue pairs there is the possibillity of allocation failures due to memory fragmentation when using kmalloc(). To ensure the memory is allocated even if kmalloc() can not find chunks which are big enough, we fall back to allocating the memory with vmalloc(). Signed-off-by: Stefan Roscher Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier --- drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c index a2605593ae79..1227c593627a 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c @@ -222,8 +222,11 @@ int ipz_queue_ctor(struct ehca_pd *pd, struct ipz_queue *queue, /* allocate queue page pointers */ queue->queue_pages = kmalloc(nr_of_pages * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL); if (!queue->queue_pages) { - ehca_gen_err("Couldn't allocate queue page list"); - return 0; + queue->queue_pages = vmalloc(nr_of_pages * sizeof(void *)); + if (!queue->queue_pages) { + ehca_gen_err("Couldn't allocate queue page list"); + return 0; + } } memset(queue->queue_pages, 0, nr_of_pages * sizeof(void *)); @@ -240,7 +243,10 @@ int ipz_queue_ctor(struct ehca_pd *pd, struct ipz_queue *queue, ipz_queue_ctor_exit0: ehca_gen_err("Couldn't alloc pages queue=%p " "nr_of_pages=%x", queue, nr_of_pages); - kfree(queue->queue_pages); + if (is_vmalloc_addr(queue->queue_pages)) + vfree(queue->queue_pages); + else + kfree(queue->queue_pages); return 0; } @@ -262,7 +268,10 @@ int ipz_queue_dtor(struct ehca_pd *pd, struct ipz_queue *queue) free_page((unsigned long)queue->queue_pages[i]); } - kfree(queue->queue_pages); + if (is_vmalloc_addr(queue->queue_pages)) + vfree(queue->queue_pages); + else + kfree(queue->queue_pages); return 1; } -- GitLab