[ofa-general] [GIT PULL] please pull infiniband.git
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Jun 23 12:23:47 PDT 2008
Linus, please pull from
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus
This tree is also available from kernel.org mirrors at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus
This will get a fix for one rare bug seen by SGI on large clusters:
Eli Cohen (1):
IB/mthca: Clear ICM pages before handing to FW
drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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 @@ 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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