On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 20:57 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > [856806.497959] [<ffffffff810cf54c>] warn_alloc_failed+0x117/0x12c > > [856806.497963] [<ffffffff810d23af>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6e3/0x792 > > [856806.497969] [<ffffffff812b7f41>] ? pfn_to_dma_pte+0x116/0x15e > > [856806.497976] [<ffffffff810ff58b>] alloc_pages_current+0xcd/0xee > > [856806.497979] [<ffffffff810cecca>] __get_free_pages+0x9/0x45 > > [856806.497982] [<ffffffff812ba67d>] intel_alloc_coherent+0x84/0xe7 > > [856806.497986] [<ffffffff81085cf8>] ? arch_local_irq_save+0x15/0x1b > > [856806.497999] [<ffffffffa0b84afc>] iwl_ucode_callback+0xa49/0xc0d [iwlwifi] > > Yes, unfortunately we need a whole bunch of contiguous memory to load > the firmware. > > > Any ideas? > > Nothing we can do from the driver side, I'm afraid. Turns out I was wrong. Here's a patch you can test. Note that we still need a lot of DMA-coherent memory for other things, but at least for the firmware image we don't. http://p.sipsolutions.net/11ea33b376a5bac5.txt johannes -- 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
