Commit 8437754c authored by Vivek Natarajan's avatar Vivek Natarajan Committed by Kalle Valo
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ath6kl: Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc for fw 



Sometimes it has been observed that allocating a contiguous memory
of more than 100K fails with kmalloc. This has been modified to
use vmalloc instead.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPingYang Zhang <pingzhan@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Natarajan <nataraja@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
parent f599359c

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c

+2 −1
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@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ 
#include <linux/module.h>

#include <linux/moduleparam.h>

#include <linux/export.h>

#include <linux/vmalloc.h>



#include "debug.h"

#include "hif-ops.h"
@@ -305,7 +306,7 @@ void ath6kl_core_cleanup(struct ath6kl *ar) 


	kfree(ar->fw_board);

	kfree(ar->fw_otp);

	kfree(ar->fw);

	vfree(ar->fw);

	kfree(ar->fw_patch);

	kfree(ar->fw_testscript);

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c

+3 −1
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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ 
#include <linux/export.h>

#include <linux/of.h>

#include <linux/mmc/sdio_func.h>

#include <linux/vmalloc.h>



#include "core.h"

#include "cfg80211.h"
@@ -928,13 +929,14 @@ static int ath6kl_fetch_fw_apin(struct ath6kl *ar, const char *name) 
			if (ar->fw != NULL)

				break;



			ar->fw = kmemdup(data, ie_len, GFP_KERNEL);

			ar->fw = vmalloc(ie_len);



			if (ar->fw == NULL) {

				ret = -ENOMEM;

				goto out;

			}



			memcpy(ar->fw, data, ie_len);

			ar->fw_len = ie_len;

			break;

		case ATH6KL_FW_IE_PATCH_IMAGE:

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