IB/mthca: Clear ICM pages before handing to FW
Current memfree FW has a bug which in some cases, assumes that ICM
pages passed to it are cleared. This patch uses __GFP_ZERO to
allocate all ICM pages passed to the FW. Once firmware with a fix is
released, we can make the workaround conditional on firmware version.
This fixes the bug reported by Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com> here:
http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2008-May/050026.html
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>
[ Rewritten to be a one-liner using __GFP_ZERO instead of vmap()ing
ICM memory and memset()ing it to 0. - Roland ]
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
index b224079..d5862e5 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
@@ -109,7 +109,11 @@
{
struct page *page;
- page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order);
+ /*
+ * Use __GFP_ZERO because buggy firmware assumes ICM pages are
+ * cleared, and subtle failures are seen if they aren't.
+ */
+ page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO, order);
if (!page)
return -ENOMEM;
