This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gve: Fix GFP flags when allocing pages
to the 5.15-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:
gve-fix-gfp-flags-when-allocing-pages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e574800651a3b95575cba228eb4791d59df637ea
Author: Shailend Chand <shailend@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Sep 12 17:09:01 2022 -0700
gve: Fix GFP flags when allocing pages
[ Upstream commit a92f7a6feeb3884c69c1c7c1f13bccecb2228ad0 ]
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: f5cedc84a30d2 ("gve: Add transmit and receive support")
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <csully@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Awogbemila <awogbemila@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220126003843.3584521-1-awogbemila@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c
index 7b18b4fd9e548..d947c2c334128 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static int gve_alloc_page_dqo(struct gve_priv *priv,
int err;
err = gve_alloc_page(priv, &priv->pdev->dev, &buf_state->page_info.page,
- &buf_state->addr, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ &buf_state->addr, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (err)
return err;
