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Subject[patch 3/9] IB/mthca: Clear ICM pages before handing to FW
2.6.25-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>

commit 87afd448b186c885d67a08b7417cd46253b6a9d6 upstream

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

[ 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: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
@@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ static int mthca_alloc_icm_pages(struct
{
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;

--


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