[PATCH v5 3/3] JFFS2: Retry Large Buffer Allocations

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 10:38:53 EDT 2011


On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 08:51 -0700, Grant Erickson wrote:
> Replace direct call to kmalloc for a potentially large, contiguous
> buffer allocation with one to mtd_kmalloc_up_to which helps ensure the
> operation can succeed under low-memory, highly- fragmented situations
> albeit somewhat more slowly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <marathon96 at gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner at nanometrics.ca>

Note, I killed this Tested-by because Ben did not test the JFFS2 part.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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