[PATCH v4] Retry Large Buffer Allocations

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 11:00:44 EDT 2011


On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:45 -0400, Ben Gardiner wrote:
> I tested this on da850evm by cherry-picking commit
> 64542ac252d378dc7a1122064821a884e85a9954 from
> git://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/l2-mtd-2.6.git.
> 
> I have a memory hole @32M (bootargs: mem=32M at 0xc0000000
> mem=64M at 0xc4000000) and I was also (like Bastian) getting "ubiformat:
> page allocation failure" errors.  Cherry-picking this commit fixed the
> problem for me; I was able to do 3x repeated ubiformats without error.
> 
> Tested-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner at nanometrics.ca>

Great, thanks!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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