This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5: Fix failing fw tracer allocation on s390 to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mlx5-fix-failing-fw-tracer-allocation-on-s390.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a019b36123aec9700b21ae0724710f62928a8bc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 09:46:20 +0200 Subject: net/mlx5: Fix failing fw tracer allocation on s390 From: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a019b36123aec9700b21ae0724710f62928a8bc1 upstream. On s390 FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER is 9 instead of 11, thus a larger kzalloc() allocation as done for the firmware tracer will always fail. Looking at mlx5_fw_tracer_save_trace(), it is actually the driver itself that copies the debug data into the trace array and there is no need for the allocation to be contiguous in physical memory. We can therefor use kvzalloc() instead of kzalloc() and get rid of the large contiguous allcoation. Fixes: f53aaa31cce7 ("net/mlx5: FW tracer, implement tracer logic") Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c @@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ struct mlx5_fw_tracer *mlx5_fw_tracer_cr return NULL; } - tracer = kzalloc(sizeof(*tracer), GFP_KERNEL); + tracer = kvzalloc(sizeof(*tracer), GFP_KERNEL); if (!tracer) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); @@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ destroy_workqueue: tracer->dev = NULL; destroy_workqueue(tracer->work_queue); free_tracer: - kfree(tracer); + kvfree(tracer); return ERR_PTR(err); } @@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ void mlx5_fw_tracer_destroy(struct mlx5_ mlx5_fw_tracer_destroy_log_buf(tracer); flush_workqueue(tracer->work_queue); destroy_workqueue(tracer->work_queue); - kfree(tracer); + kvfree(tracer); } void mlx5_fw_tracer_event(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, struct mlx5_eqe *eqe) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/net-mlx5-fix-failing-fw-tracer-allocation-on-s390.patch