Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 57d5f64d83 tipc: allocate user memory with GFP_KERNEL flag ...

Until now, we allocate memory always with GFP_ATOMIC flag.
When the system is under memory pressure and a user tries to send,
the send fails due to low memory. However, the user application
can wait for free memory if we allocate it using GFP_KERNEL flag.

In this commit, we use allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL for all user
allocation.

Reported-by: Rune Torgersen <runet@innovsys.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2017-01-16 13:31:53 -05:00

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