Git pull request: mach/vmalloc.h removal, and ioremap optimizations
Nicolas Pitre
nico at fluxnic.net
Tue Oct 4 14:49:50 EDT 2011
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Russell, please pull
>
> git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/linux vmalloc
Given the problems that exist in the OMAP tree and their likely fixes
going into mainline only during the next merge window, I'm withdrawing
this request until the next cycle.
> One regression was discovered on shmobile during testing because that
> platform asks for 158MB of consistent DMA memory while the documented
> maximum is 14MB. Inspection of the code doesn't tell why this is
> required, and listed maintainers did not respond yet after a couple
> days. So a temporary exception to the definition of VMALLOC_END was
> added for CONFIG_SHMOBILE and a noisy warning to get those maintainers'
> attention.
For the record, those maintainers still didn't respond.
Nicolas
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