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| author | Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qca.qualcomm.com> | 2012-03-28 19:21:25 +0530 |
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| committer | Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> | 2012-04-03 21:26:01 +0300 |
| commit | 8437754c83351d6213c1a47ff029c1126d6042a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 5b9f184f7f5ac450feaf68d15a0f4cb9e07a2a03 | |
| parent | f599359cb97425b034b41e8d4a1a86eaa151972c (diff) | |
| download | talos-op-linux-8437754c83351d6213c1a47ff029c1126d6042a7.tar.gz talos-op-linux-8437754c83351d6213c1a47ff029c1126d6042a7.zip | |
ath6kl: Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc for fw
Sometimes it has been observed that allocating a contiguous memory
of more than 100K fails with kmalloc. This has been modified to
use vmalloc instead.
Signed-off-by: PingYang Zhang <pingzhan@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c index 5c20a043a470..fdb3b1decc76 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/moduleparam.h> #include <linux/export.h> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h> #include "debug.h" #include "hif-ops.h" @@ -305,7 +306,7 @@ void ath6kl_core_cleanup(struct ath6kl *ar) kfree(ar->fw_board); kfree(ar->fw_otp); - kfree(ar->fw); + vfree(ar->fw); kfree(ar->fw_patch); kfree(ar->fw_testscript); diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c index 092e4cddfed3..5949ab5357fd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include <linux/export.h> #include <linux/of.h> #include <linux/mmc/sdio_func.h> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h> #include "core.h" #include "cfg80211.h" @@ -928,13 +929,14 @@ static int ath6kl_fetch_fw_apin(struct ath6kl *ar, const char *name) if (ar->fw != NULL) break; - ar->fw = kmemdup(data, ie_len, GFP_KERNEL); + ar->fw = vmalloc(ie_len); if (ar->fw == NULL) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto out; } + memcpy(ar->fw, data, ie_len); ar->fw_len = ie_len; break; case ATH6KL_FW_IE_PATCH_IMAGE: |
