This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled atl1c: Improve driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation to the 4.3-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: atl1c-improve-driver-not-to-do-order-4-gfp_atomic-allocation.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Dec 30 19:48:47 PST 2015 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:50:00 +0100 Subject: atl1c: Improve driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation From: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f2a3771ae8aca879c32336c76ad05a017629bae2 ] atl1c driver is doing order-4 allocation with GFP_ATOMIC priority. That often breaks networking after resume. Switch to GFP_KERNEL. Still not ideal, but should be significantly better. atl1c_setup_ring_resources() is called from .open() function, and already uses GFP_KERNEL, so this change is safe. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c @@ -1016,13 +1016,12 @@ static int atl1c_setup_ring_resources(st sizeof(struct atl1c_recv_ret_status) * rx_desc_count + 8 * 4; - ring_header->desc = pci_alloc_consistent(pdev, ring_header->size, - &ring_header->dma); + ring_header->desc = dma_zalloc_coherent(&pdev->dev, ring_header->size, + &ring_header->dma, GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(!ring_header->desc)) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "pci_alloc_consistend failed\n"); + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get memory for DMA buffer\n"); goto err_nomem; } - memset(ring_header->desc, 0, ring_header->size); /* init TPD ring */ tpd_ring[0].dma = roundup(ring_header->dma, 8); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pavel@xxxxxx are queue-4.3/atl1c-improve-driver-not-to-do-order-4-gfp_atomic-allocation.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html