On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:07:12PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:01:43 +0200 >> Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > > >> > > What this wants to do: >> > > Â allocates a contiguous chunk of pages larger than MAX_ORDER. >> > > Â for device drivers (camera? etc..) >> > >> > I think to really move forward you need a concrete use case >> > actually implemented in tree. >> >> As already pointed out, some embeded drivers need physcailly >> contignous memory. Currenlty, they use hacky tricks (e.g. playing with >> the boot memory allocators). There are several proposals for this like > > Are any of those in mainline? drivers/video/omap/ -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href