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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	sgruszka@redhat.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	johannes.berg@intel.com, wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com,
	ilw@linux.intel.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: iwl3945: order 5 allocation during ifconfig up; vm problem?
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:16:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347426988.13103.684.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120911162536.bd5171a1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 16:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Asking for a 256k allocation is pretty crazy - this is an operating
> system kernel, not a userspace application.
> 
> I'm wondering if this is due to a recent change, but I'm having trouble
> working out where the allocation call site is.
> --

(Adding Marc Merlin to CC, since he reported same problem)

Thats the firmware loading in iwlwifi driver. Not sure if it can use SG.

drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c

iwl_alloc_ucode() -> iwl_alloc_fw_desc() -> dma_alloc_coherent()

It seems some sections of /lib/firmware/iwlwifi*.ucode files are above
128 Kbytes, so dma_alloc_coherent() try order-5 allocations


# ls -l /lib/firmware/iwlwifi*.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 335056 2012-01-23 18:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 337520 2012-01-23 18:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 689680 2012-01-24 19:18 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-105-6.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 701228 2012-01-24 19:18 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-135-6.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 695876 2012-01-24 19:19 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 707392 2012-01-24 19:19 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150100 2012-01-23 18:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187972 2012-01-23 18:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 345008 2012-01-23 18:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 353240 2012-01-23 18:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340696 2012-01-23 18:21 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 337400 2012-01-23 18:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 462280 2012-01-24 19:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 444128 2012-01-24 19:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 460912 2012-01-24 19:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 679436 2012-01-24 19:19 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 463692 2012-01-23 18:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 469780 2012-01-23 18:20 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-12  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-09 21:32 Pavel Machek
2012-09-09 22:40 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-10 11:11   ` Pavel Machek
2012-09-11 23:25     ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-12  5:16       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-09-12  5:57         ` Marc MERLIN
2012-09-12  6:54           ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-24  9:03             ` Dan Carpenter
2012-09-24  9:14               ` Johannes Berg
2012-09-12  9:22       ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-09-12 10:18       ` Mel Gorman
2012-10-03 11:37         ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-10-03 18:07           ` David Rientjes
2012-10-05  8:37             ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-10-06 12:08               ` Pavel Machek
2012-10-08 15:38                 ` Stanislaw Gruszka

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