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IB/mthca: Clear ICM pages before handing to FW
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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>
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Eli Cohen authored and Roland Dreier committed Jun 23, 2008
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
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Expand Up @@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ static int mthca_alloc_icm_pages(struct scatterlist *mem, int order, gfp_t gfp_m
{
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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