Re: ipw2200: firmware DMA loading rework

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Friday 28 August 2009 05:42:31 Zhu Yi wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz reported an atomic order-6 allocation failure
> for ipw2200 firmware loading in kernel 2.6.30. High order allocation is

s/2.6.30/2.6.31-rc6/

The issue has always been there but it was some recent change that
explicitly triggered the allocation failures (after 2.6.31-rc1).

> likely to fail and should always be avoided.
> 
> The patch fixes this problem by replacing the original order-6
> pci_alloc_consistent() with an array of order-1 pages from a pci pool.
> This utilized the ipw2200 DMA command blocks (up to 64 slots). The
> maximum firmware size support remains the same (64*8K).
> 
> This patch fixes bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14016
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fix (also kudos to other people helping with the bugreport),
it works fine so far and looks OK to me:

Tested-and-reviewed-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
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