This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    atl1c: Improve driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation

to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     atl1c-improve-driver-not-to-do-order-4-gfp_atomic-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Dec 30 19:48:47 PST 2015
From: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:50:00 +0100
Subject: atl1c: Improve driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation

From: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit f2a3771ae8aca879c32336c76ad05a017629bae2 ]

atl1c driver is doing order-4 allocation with GFP_ATOMIC
priority. That often breaks  networking after resume. Switch to
GFP_KERNEL. Still not ideal, but should be significantly better.

atl1c_setup_ring_resources() is called from .open() function, and
already uses GFP_KERNEL, so this change is safe.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
@@ -1016,13 +1016,12 @@ static int atl1c_setup_ring_resources(st
                sizeof(struct atl1c_recv_ret_status) * rx_desc_count +
                8 * 4;
 
-       ring_header->desc = pci_alloc_consistent(pdev, ring_header->size,
-                               &ring_header->dma);
+       ring_header->desc = dma_zalloc_coherent(&pdev->dev, ring_header->size,
+                                               &ring_header->dma, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (unlikely(!ring_header->desc)) {
-               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "pci_alloc_consistend failed\n");
+               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get memory for DMA buffer\n");
                goto err_nomem;
        }
-       memset(ring_header->desc, 0, ring_header->size);
        /* init TPD ring */
 
        tpd_ring[0].dma = roundup(ring_header->dma, 8);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.3/atl1c-improve-driver-not-to-do-order-4-gfp_atomic-allocation.patch
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