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SubjectRe: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:41:34 -0700 David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

> On Friday 04 April 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > This problem comes up pretty often.
>
> Which problem -- kmalloc(BIG)? Or dma(dma-unsafe-mem)?
> Or something else?

Code needing a large amount of memory, trying to kmalloc it, then getting
into trouble, them using vmalloc, then getting into more trouble.

This is kernel - order-0 allocations will always be the most robust.


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