[PATCH v4] Retry Large Buffer Allocations

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:45 -0400, Ben Gardiner wrote:
> Hi Grant, Artem
> 
> Thanks for this fix!
> 
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Grant Erickson <marathon96 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When handling user space read or write requests via mtd_{read,write}
> > or JFFS2 medium scan requests, exponentially back off on the size of
> > the requested kernel transfer buffer until it succeeds or until the
> > requested transfer buffer size falls below the page size.
> >
> > This helps ensure the operation can succeed under low-memory,
> > highly-fragmented situations albeit somewhat more slowly.
> >
> >  v2: Incorporated coding style and comment feedback from Artem.
> >  v3: Incorporated more feedback from Artem. Retargeted patch against
> >      l2-mtd-2.6.
> >  v4: Incorporated feedback from Artem about compilation on 64-bit
> >      architectures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <marathon96 at gmail.com>
> 
> I tested this on da850evm by cherry-picking commit
> 64542ac252d378dc7a1122064821a884e85a9954 from
> git://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/l2-mtd-2.6.git.

Grant sent an updated patch-set and added your Tested-by. However, there
were several conflicts which I had to. If you could test the final
patches again - that'd be great! They are in the same l2-mtd-2.6.git
tree:

8fa3c20 JFFS2: retry large buffer allocations
88ab142 mtd: mtdchar: retry large buffer allocations
99815a5 mtd: create function to perform large allocations

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)