The patch titled FRV: Permit large kmalloc allocations [try #2] has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is frv-permit-large-kmalloc-allocations.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: FRV: Permit large kmalloc allocations [try #2] From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Permit kmalloc() to make allocations of up to 32MB if so configured. This may be useful under NOMMU conditions where vmalloc() can't do this. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/frv/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/frv/Kconfig~frv-permit-large-kmalloc-allocations arch/frv/Kconfig --- a/arch/frv/Kconfig~frv-permit-large-kmalloc-allocations +++ a/arch/frv/Kconfig @@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ config HIGHPTE with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page tables in high memory. +config LARGE_ALLOCS + bool "Allow allocating large blocks (> 1MB) of memory" + help + Allow the slab memory allocator to keep chains for very large memory + sizes - up to 32MB. You may need this if your system has a lot of + RAM, and you need to able to allocate very large contiguous chunks. + If unsure, say N. + source "mm/Kconfig" choice _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch git-gfs2.patch git-serial.patch frv-permit-large-kmalloc-allocations.patch reiserfs-make-sure-all-dentries-refs-are-released-before-calling-kill_block_super-try-2.patch fs-cache-provide-a-filesystem-specific-syncable-page-bit.patch fs-cache-generic-filesystem-caching-facility.patch fs-cache-release-page-private-in-failed-readahead.patch fs-cache-release-page-private-after-failed-readahead-12.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache-fix.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache-12.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache-12-fix.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache-kconfig-fix.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache-vs-streamline-generic_file_-interfaces-and-filemap.patch nfs-use-local-caching.patch nfs-use-local-caching-12.patch nfs-use-local-caching-12-fix.patch nfs-use-local-caching-kconfig-fix.patch add-missing-page_copy-export-for-ppc-and-powerpc.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-ia64-missing-copy_page-export.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-fscache-fix-gfp_t-sparse-annotations.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-cachefiles-printk-format-warning.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-warning-fixes.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-cachefiles-cachefiles_write_page-shouldnt-indicate-error-twice.patch fscache-kconfig-tidying.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-cachefiles-handle-enospc-on-create-mkdir-better.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-inode-count-maintenance.patch autofs-make-sure-all-dentries-refs-are-released-before-calling-kill_anon_super.patch vfs-destroy-the-dentries-contributed-by-a-superblock-on-unmounting.patch afs-amend-the-afs-configuration-options.patch vfs-make-filldir_t-and-struct-kstat-deal-in-64-bit-inode-numbers.patch vfs-make-filldir_t-and-struct-kstat-deal-in-64-bit-inode-numbers-alpha-fix.patch nfs-represent-64-bit-fileids-as-64-bit-inode-numbers-on-32-bit-systems.patch ecryptfs-get_sb_dev-fix.patch ecryptfs-inode-numbering-fixes.patch reiser4-get_sb_dev-fix.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html