[PATCH] ARM: Orion5x: Fix too small coherent pool.

Sebastian Hesselbarth sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 19:16:10 EDT 2012


On 09/24/2012 07:37 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:37:16PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 07:54:33AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> Some Orion5x devices allocate their coherent buffers from atomic
>>> context. Increase size of atomic coherent pool to make sure such the
>>> allocations won't fail during boot.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn<andrew at lunn.ch>
>>
>> Acked-by: Jason Cooper<jason at lakedaemon.net>
>>
>> btw - we should take this to it's logical conclusion and have Sebastian
>> check Dove.  Sebastian?
>
> I did think about that. It probably hits if you have two sata
> devices. However, all current Dove machines have just one.

Jason, Andrew,

I did boot arm-soc/for-next on Cubox and looks like 256k pool for atomic
coherent allocations is enough. I booted with sata, sdhci0, eth0, i2c0,
spi0, and both pcie ports forced on without any pcie devices attached.

Sebastian



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