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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
To: David Brownell <david-b@...>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@...>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-mtd@...>, Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@...>, <spi-devel-general@...>, <dwmw2@...>, <linux-arm-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation
Date: Friday, April 4, 2008 - 11:27 pm

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:41:34 -0700 David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:


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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[PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, Michael Trimarchi, (Fri Apr 4, 6:23 am)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, Andrew Morton, (Fri Apr 4, 3:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, David Brownell, (Fri Apr 4, 7:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, Josh Boyer, (Fri Apr 4, 7:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, David Brownell, (Fri Apr 4, 7:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, Josh Boyer, (Fri Apr 4, 9:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, Kyungmin Park, (Fri Apr 4, 9:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, David Brownell, (Fri Apr 4, 10:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, Andrew Morton, (Fri Apr 4, 9:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, David Brownell, (Fri Apr 4, 10:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, Andrew Morton, (Fri Apr 4, 11:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation, Russell King - ARM Linux, (Fri Apr 4, 4:09 pm)