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    Bluetooth: btrtl: Use kvmalloc for FW allocations · 268d3636
    Maxim Mikityanskiy authored
    Currently, kmemdup is applied to the firmware data, and it invokes
    kmalloc under the hood. The firmware size and patch_length are big (more
    than PAGE_SIZE), and on some low-end systems (like ASUS E202SA) kmalloc
    may fail to allocate a contiguous chunk under high memory usage and
    fragmentation:
    
    Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=06 hci_rev=000a lmp_ver=06 lmp_subver=8821
    Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: rom_version status=0 version=1
    Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8821a_fw.bin
    kworker/u9:2: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x40cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
    <stack trace follows>
    
    As firmware load happens on each resume, Bluetooth will stop working
    after several iterations, when the kernel fails to allocate an order-4
    page.
    
    This patch replaces kmemdup with kvmalloc+memcpy. It's not required to
    have a contiguous chunk here, because it's not mapped to the device
    directly.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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