From: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:02:51 -0400

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 05:56:16PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
>> Neil Horman <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > atl1c uses netdev_alloc_skb to refill its rx dma ring, but that call makes 
>> > no
>> > guarantees about the suitability of the memory for use in DMA.  As a result
>> > we've gotten reports of atl1c drivers occasionally hanging and needing to 
>> > be
>> > reset:
>> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54021
>> >
>> > Fix this by modifying the call to use the internal version 
>> > __netdev_alloc_skb,
>> > where you can set the gfp_mask explicitly to include GFP_DMA.
>> >
>> > Tested by two reporters in the above bug, who have the hardware to 
>> > validate it.
>> > Both report immediate cessation of the problem with this patch
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
>> > CC: Jay Cliburn <[email protected]>
>> > CC: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
>> > CC: [email protected]
>> > Tested-by: Luis Henrix <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Thanks Neil!
>> 
>> Would it be possible for you to update my name and email?  (I've just
>> updated my bz account to remove my gmail account address -- I thought
>> I had done this ages ago.)
>> 
>> Tested-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
>> 
> I'm sure if Dave has time, he will square that up.

I took care of this while applying Neil's patch, thanks.
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