From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ey0-f177.google.com ([209.85.215.177]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Q8DDi-0001Fk-AK for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:03:35 +0000 Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so1215416eyh.36 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Retry Large Buffer Allocations From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Ben Gardiner In-Reply-To: References: <1302198035-32577-1-git-send-email-marathon96@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:00:44 +0300 Message-ID: <1302274844.2834.39.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Grant Erickson , Jarkko Lavinen , Bastian.Ruppert@sewerin.de Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:45 -0400, Ben Gardiner wrote: > I tested this on da850evm by cherry-picking commit > 64542ac252d378dc7a1122064821a884e85a9954 from > git://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/l2-mtd-2.6.git. > > I have a memory hole @32M (bootargs: mem=32M@0xc0000000 > mem=64M@0xc4000000) and I was also (like Bastian) getting "ubiformat: > page allocation failure" errors. Cherry-picking this commit fixed the > problem for me; I was able to do 3x repeated ubiformats without error. > > Tested-by: Ben Gardiner Great, thanks! -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)