[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/gvt: fix high-order allocation failure on late load

[Zhenyu Wang]

On 2020.01.22 20:10:24 +0000, Igor Druzhinin wrote:
> If the module happens to be loaded later at runtime there is a chance
> memory is already fragmented enough to fail allocation of firmware
> blob storage and consequently GVT init. Since it doesn't seem to be
> necessary to have the blob contiguous, use vmalloc() instead to avoid
> the issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin at citrix.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/firmware.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/firmware.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/firmware.c
> index 049775e..b0c1fda 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/firmware.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/firmware.c
> @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ void intel_gvt_free_firmware(struct intel_gvt *gvt)
>  		clean_firmware_sysfs(gvt);
>  
>  	kfree(gvt->firmware.cfg_space);
> -	kfree(gvt->firmware.mmio);
> +	vfree(gvt->firmware.mmio);
>  }
>  
>  static int verify_firmware(struct intel_gvt *gvt,
> @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ int intel_gvt_load_firmware(struct intel_gvt *gvt)
>  
>  	firmware->cfg_space = mem;
>  
> -	mem = kmalloc(info->mmio_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	mem = vmalloc(info->mmio_size);
>  	if (!mem) {
>  		kfree(path);
>  		kfree(firmware->cfg_space);
> -- 
> 2.7.4
>

Looks fine to me. Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw at linux.intel.com>

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