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Doing kmalloc in atomic context is always an issue, more so for a list that can grow significantly. Turns out that the driver only uses the duplicated list of multicast mac addresses to keep track of what addresses to delete from h/w before committing the new list from kernel to h/w back again via set_rx_mode, every time this list gets updated by the kernel. Given that the h/w knows how to add and delete mac addresses based on the mac address value alone, __dev_mc_sync should be the much better choice of kernel API for these operations avoiding the considerable overhead of maintaining a duplicated list in the driver. Signed-off-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com> Tested-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.