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Re: [PATCH] brcmsmac: Use kvmalloc() for ucode allocations

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Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The ucode chunk might be relatively large and the allocation with
> kmalloc() may fail occasionally.  Since the data isn't DMA-transferred
> but by manual loops, we can use vmalloc instead of kmalloc.
> For a better performance, though, kvmalloc() would be the best choice
> in such a case, so let's replace with it.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103431
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

6c3efbe77bc7 brcmsmac: Use kvmalloc() for ucode allocations

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10598731/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches




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