Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 1 author, 2026-02-05
STALE125d

[PATCH][net-next] nfp: flower: use GFP_KERNEL in idr_preload

From: lirongqing <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-05 06:00:20
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: netronome ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Li RongQing <redacted>

idr_preload() is called in a sleepable context before acquiring a
spinlock. Change the allocation flag from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_KERNEL
to allow direct reclaim and improve allocation success rate under
memory pressure.

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c
index 83eaa5a..8f232c6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ nfp_flower_get_internal_port_id(struct nfp_app *app, struct net_device *netdev)
 	if (id > 0)
 		return id;
 
-	idr_preload(GFP_ATOMIC);
+	idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
 	spin_lock_bh(&priv->internal_ports.lock);
 	id = idr_alloc(&priv->internal_ports.port_ids, netdev,
 		       NFP_MIN_INT_PORT_ID, NFP_MAX_INT_PORT_ID, GFP_ATOMIC);
-- 
2.9.4
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help