From: David S. Miller Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:56:32 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Merge branch 'cxgb4-reduce-memory-footprint-for-collecting-firmware-dump' X-Git-Tag: for-linus-20180210~31^2~120 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e0e8a14971455f2edea1d7d51c42c1ac36d02211;p=linux-block.git Merge branch 'cxgb4-reduce-memory-footprint-for-collecting-firmware-dump' Rahul Lakkireddy says: ==================== cxgb4: reduce memory footprint for collecting firmware dump Firmware dump can be large (upto 2 GB). In low memory conditions, ethtool fails to allocate such large memory. So, use zlib deflate to compress collected firmware dump. Patch 1 updates collection logic to use compression. Patch 2 adds zlib deflate to compress collected firmware dump. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- e0e8a14971455f2edea1d7d51c42c1ac36d02211