Return-path: Received: from po-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.252.154]:65034 "EHLO po-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754832AbYFDTJk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:09:40 -0400 Received: by po-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id c31so421036poi.1 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240806041209i5e3fbb35r5667314ea9417379@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080604_210943_755305_34172CC1) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:09:37 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Lukas Hejtmanek" Subject: Re: Page allocation failure in 2.6.26-rc2 (iwl4965 driver) Cc: "maximilian attems" , linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080604185743.GQ5012@ics.muni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20080604130307.GN5012@ics.muni.cz> <20080604130452.GD9258@baikonur.stro.at> <20080604185743.GQ5012@ics.muni.cz> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2008/6/4 Lukas Hejtmanek : > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:04:52PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: >> similar with 2.6.25-rc3-git7 not a regression. happens for me since >> early merge of iwlwifi after several resume and suspend cycles + mem >> pressure. > > Jiri Slaby suggested that the iwl driver should not try to alloc 64kB (order > 4) using kalloc but vmalloc should be used instead. While not understanding > iwl driver internals, I cannot say whether it can be replaced per se. > We my try it but the problem is somewhere else. Tomas