On Friday 28 August 2009 05:42:31 Zhu Yi wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz reported an atomic order-6 allocation failure > for ipw2200 firmware loading in kernel 2.6.30. High order allocation is s/2.6.30/2.6.31-rc6/ The issue has always been there but it was some recent change that explicitly triggered the allocation failures (after 2.6.31-rc1). > likely to fail and should always be avoided. > > The patch fixes this problem by replacing the original order-6 > pci_alloc_consistent() with an array of order-1 pages from a pci pool. > This utilized the ipw2200 DMA command blocks (up to 64 slots). The > maximum firmware size support remains the same (64*8K). > > This patch fixes bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14016 > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks for the fix (also kudos to other people helping with the bugreport), it works fine so far and looks OK to me: Tested-and-reviewed-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
