Use GFP_ATOMIC when allocating pages out of the hotpath,
continue to use GFP_KERNEL when allocating pages during setup.
GFP_KERNEL will allow blocking which allows it to succeed
more often in a low memory enviornment but in the hotpath we do
not want to allow the allocation to block.
Fixes: 17b7b5dff8f1f ("gve: Add transmit and receive support")
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <csully@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Awogbemila <awogbemila@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220126003843.3584521-1-awogbemila@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
/* buffers */
int gve_alloc_page(struct gve_priv *priv, struct device *dev,
struct page **page, dma_addr_t *dma,
- enum dma_data_direction);
+ enum dma_data_direction, gfp_t gfp_flags);
void gve_free_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page, dma_addr_t dma,
enum dma_data_direction);
/* tx handling */
int gve_alloc_page(struct gve_priv *priv, struct device *dev,
struct page **page, dma_addr_t *dma,
- enum dma_data_direction dir)
+ enum dma_data_direction dir, gfp_t gfp_flags)
{
- *page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ *page = alloc_page(gfp_flags);
if (!*page) {
priv->page_alloc_fail++;
return -ENOMEM;
for (i = 0; i < pages; i++) {
err = gve_alloc_page(priv, &priv->pdev->dev, &qpl->pages[i],
&qpl->page_buses[i],
- gve_qpl_dma_dir(priv, id));
+ gve_qpl_dma_dir(priv, id), GFP_KERNEL);
/* caller handles clean up */
if (err)
return -ENOMEM;
dma_addr_t dma;
int err;
- err = gve_alloc_page(priv, dev, &page, &dma, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+ err = gve_alloc_page(priv, dev, &page, &dma, DMA_FROM_DEVICE,
+ GFP_ATOMIC);
if (err)
return err;
int err;
err = gve_alloc_page(priv, &priv->pdev->dev, &buf_state->page_info.page,
- &buf_state->addr, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+ &buf_state->addr, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (err)
return err;