Re: iwl3945: order 5 allocation during ifconfig up; vm problem?

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Re: iwl3945: order 5 allocation during ifconfig up; vm problem? · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> · 2012-09-12
Re: iwl3945: order 5 allocation during ifconfig up; vm problem? · Dan Carpenter <hidden> · 2012-09-24
Re: iwl3945: order 5 allocation during ifconfig up; vm problem? · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> · 2012-09-24

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2012-09-24 09:14:36
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On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 12:03 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:

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iwl_alloc_ucode() -> iwl_alloc_fw_desc() -> dma_alloc_coherent()

I'm filing bugzilla entries for regressions.  What's the status on
this?

It looks like a VM change caused it, but I merged a patch for -next to
not require such large DMA allocations any more.

johannes