From: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@qlogic.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:17:06 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: qlcnic: Don't use kzalloc unncecessarily for allocating large chunk of memory
X-Git-Tag: v4.3-rc1~96^2~204^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0e90ad9bfdcc8835945ccb49f39c21ff3cb0b785;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-exynos.git

qlcnic: Don't use kzalloc unncecessarily for allocating large chunk of memory

Driver allocates a large chunk of temporary buffer using kzalloc
to copy FW image. As there is no real need of this memory to be
physically contiguous, use vzalloc instead.

Signed-off-by: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c
index 753ea8b..bf89216 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c
@@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ static int qlcnic_83xx_copy_fw_file(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter)
 	size_t size;
 	u64 addr;
 
-	temp = kzalloc(fw->size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	temp = vzalloc(fw->size);
 	if (!temp) {
 		release_firmware(fw);
 		fw_info->fw = NULL;
@@ -1430,7 +1430,7 @@ static int qlcnic_83xx_copy_fw_file(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter)
 exit:
 	release_firmware(fw);
 	fw_info->fw = NULL;
-	kfree(temp);
+	vfree(temp);
 
 	return ret;
 }