[PATCH netdev-2.6 7/10] ixgb: Replace kmalloc with vmalloc to allocate driver local data structures

[Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Signed-off-by: ganesh venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@xxxxxxxxx>

diff -up netdev-2.6/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb.h 
netdev-2.6/drivers/net/ixgb.new/ixgb.h
--- netdev-2.6/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb.h  2004-10-15 13:15:38.000000000 -0700
+++ netdev-2.6/drivers/net/ixgb.new/ixgb.h      2004-10-15 13:15:51.000000000 
-0700
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/timer.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
diff -up netdev-2.6/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c 
netdev-2.6/drivers/net/ixgb.new/ixgb_main.c
--- netdev-2.6/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c     2004-10-15 13:15:38.000000000 
-0700
+++ netdev-2.6/drivers/net/ixgb.new/ixgb_main.c 2004-10-15 13:15:55.000000000 
-0700
@@ -608,8 +608,8 @@ static int ixgb_close(struct net_device 
        int size;
 
        size = sizeof(struct ixgb_buffer) * txdr->count;
-       txdr->buffer_info = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!txdr->buffer_info) {
+       txdr->buffer_info = vmalloc(size);
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
        memset(txdr->buffer_info, 0, size);
@@ -621,7 +620,7 @@ static int ixgb_setup_tx_resources(struc
 
        txdr->desc = pci_alloc_consistent(pdev, txdr->size, &txdr->dma);
        if (!txdr->desc) {
-               kfree(txdr->buffer_info);
+               vfree(txdr->buffer_info);
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
        memset(txdr->desc, 0, txdr->size);
@@ -697,8 +692,8 @@ static void ixgb_configure_tx(struct ixg
        int size;
 
        size = sizeof(struct ixgb_buffer) * rxdr->count;
-       rxdr->buffer_info = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!rxdr->buffer_info) {
+       rxdr->buffer_info = vmalloc(size);
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
        memset(rxdr->buffer_info, 0, size);
@@ -711,7 +713,7 @@ static int ixgb_setup_rx_resources(struc
        rxdr->desc = pci_alloc_consistent(pdev, rxdr->size, &rxdr->dma);
 
        if (!rxdr->desc) {
-               kfree(rxdr->buffer_info);
+               vfree(rxdr->buffer_info);
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
        memset(rxdr->desc, 0, rxdr->size);
@@ -865,7 +867,7 @@ static void ixgb_configure_rx(struct ixg
 
        ixgb_clean_tx_ring(adapter);
 
-       kfree(adapter->tx_ring.buffer_info);
+       vfree(adapter->tx_ring.buffer_info);
        adapter->tx_ring.buffer_info = NULL;
 
        pci_free_consistent(pdev, adapter->tx_ring.size,
@@ -931,7 +935,7 @@ static void ixgb_clean_tx_ring(struct ix
 
        ixgb_clean_rx_ring(adapter);
 
-       kfree(rx_ring->buffer_info);
+       vfree(rx_ring->buffer_info);
        rx_ring->buffer_info = NULL;
 
        pci_free_consistent(pdev, rx_ring->size, rx_ring->desc, rx_ring->dma);