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The patch titled

     FRV: Permit large kmalloc allocations [try #2]

has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename is

     frv-permit-large-kmalloc-allocations.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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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 file 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
nfs-represent-64-bit-fileids-as-64-bit-inode-numbers-on-32-bit-systems.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
reiser4-get_sb_dev-fix.patch
mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch

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