ath9k: Get rid of unnecessary ATOMIC memory alloc during init time
We can sleep for memory during init time and so allocating rx buffers,
descriptro buffers with GFP_KERNEL should help us to get rid of transient
alloc fails.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
index bb30ccc..4bc43db 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
@@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@
/* allocate descriptors */
dd->dd_desc = dma_alloc_coherent(sc->dev, dd->dd_desc_len,
- &dd->dd_desc_paddr, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ &dd->dd_desc_paddr, GFP_KERNEL);
if (dd->dd_desc == NULL) {
error = -ENOMEM;
goto fail;
@@ -1816,12 +1816,11 @@
/* allocate buffers */
bsize = sizeof(struct ath_buf) * nbuf;
- bf = kmalloc(bsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ bf = kzalloc(bsize, GFP_KERNEL);
if (bf == NULL) {
error = -ENOMEM;
goto fail2;
}
- memset(bf, 0, bsize);
dd->dd_bufptr = bf;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(head);