Re: [PATCH 5.10 187/575] ath10k: high latency fixes for beacon buffer

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Nov 16 2021 - 06:59:37 EST


Hi!

> From: Alagu Sankar <alagusankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit e263bdab9c0e8025fb7f41f153709a9cda51f6b6 ]
>
> Beacon buffer for high latency devices does not use DMA. other similar
> buffer allocation methods in the driver have already been modified for
> high latency path. Fix the beacon buffer allocation left out in the
> earlier high latency changes.

There's GFP_KERNEL vs. GFP_ATOMIC confusion here:

> @@ -5466,10 +5470,17 @@ static int ath10k_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
> if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC ||
> vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT ||
> vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) {
> - arvif->beacon_buf = dma_alloc_coherent(ar->dev,
> - IEEE80211_MAX_FRAME_LEN,
> - &arvif->beacon_paddr,
> - GFP_ATOMIC);
> + if (ar->bus_param.dev_type == ATH10K_DEV_TYPE_HL) {
> + arvif->beacon_buf = kmalloc(IEEE80211_MAX_FRAME_LEN,
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> + arvif->beacon_paddr = (dma_addr_t)arvif->beacon_buf;
> + } else {
> + arvif->beacon_buf =
> + dma_alloc_coherent(ar->dev,
> + IEEE80211_MAX_FRAME_LEN,
> + &arvif->beacon_paddr,
> + GFP_ATOMIC);
> + }
> if (!arvif->beacon_buf) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> ath10k_warn(ar, "failed to allocate beacon
> buffer: %d\n",

I'd expect both allocations to use same GFP_ flags.

Best regards,
Pavel
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