On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 08:54:06AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 22:57 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 07:16:28AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 16:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > Asking for a 256k allocation is pretty crazy - this is an operating > > > > system kernel, not a userspace application. > > > > > > > > I'm wondering if this is due to a recent change, but I'm having trouble > > > > working out where the allocation call site is. > > > > -- > > > > > > (Adding Marc Merlin to CC, since he reported same problem) > > > > > > Thats the firmware loading in iwlwifi driver. Not sure if it can use SG. > > > > > > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c > > > > > > iwl_alloc_ucode() -> iwl_alloc_fw_desc() -> dma_alloc_coherent() I'm filing bugzilla entries for regressions. What's the status on this? regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>