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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: PingYang Zhang <pingzhan@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Vivek Natarajan 13 years ago
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2 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 1
      drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c
  2. 3 1
      drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c

+ 2 - 1
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c

@@ -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);
 

+ 3 - 1
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c

@@ -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: