Commit ac07a4a5 authored by Brian King's avatar Brian King Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt

hvcs: Ensure page aligned partner info buffer

The Power platform requires the partner info buffer to be page aligned
otherwise it will fail the partner info hcall with H_PARAMETER. Switch
from using kmalloc to allocate this buffer to __get_free_page to ensure
page alignment.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
parent 8bdafa39
......@@ -1532,7 +1532,7 @@ static int __devinit hvcs_initialize(void)
goto register_fail;
}
hvcs_pi_buff = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
hvcs_pi_buff = (unsigned long *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hvcs_pi_buff) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto buff_alloc_fail;
......@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ static int __devinit hvcs_initialize(void)
return 0;
kthread_fail:
kfree(hvcs_pi_buff);
free_page((unsigned long)hvcs_pi_buff);
buff_alloc_fail:
tty_unregister_driver(hvcs_tty_driver);
register_fail:
......@@ -1597,7 +1597,7 @@ static void __exit hvcs_module_exit(void)
kthread_stop(hvcs_task);
spin_lock(&hvcs_pi_lock);
kfree(hvcs_pi_buff);
free_page((unsigned long)hvcs_pi_buff);
hvcs_pi_buff = NULL;
spin_unlock(&hvcs_pi_lock);
......
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