[PATCH 5.15 060/128] gve: Fix GFP flags when allocing pages

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5.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Shailend Chand <shailend@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ 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>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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;
 
-- 
2.42.0






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