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From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"lkml@Think-Future.de" <lkml@Think-Future.de>,
	Linux Kernel-Liste <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ilw@linux.intel.com" <ilw@linux.intel.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: iwlagn kernel 2.6.32.3 ooops
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:04:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1265735092.2551.1835.camel@rchatre-DESK> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100209165247.GB2512@dhcp-lab-161.englab.brq.redhat.com>

Hi Stanislaw,

On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 08:52 -0800, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
>  
> > > [250420.677168] Pid: 11584, comm: ip Not tainted 2.6.32.3 #5
> > > [250420.677173] Call Trace:
> > > [250420.677190]  [<c10a53f8>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x518/0x5f0
> > > [250420.677204]  [<c1007c20>] ? dma_generic_alloc_coherent+0x0/0x100
> > > [250420.677214]  [<c1007c92>] ? dma_generic_alloc_coherent+0x72/0x100
> > > [250420.677224]  [<c1007c20>] ? dma_generic_alloc_coherent+0x0/0x100
> > > [250420.677241]  [<fca1c9d5>] ? iwl_tx_queue_init+0x285/0x380 [iwlcore]
> 
> That is at initialization time. To avoid atomic allocation we can just
> use dma_alloc_coherent instead of pci_alloc_consistent. I'm going to
> prepare a patch.

I do not understand your goal here ... as seen in this trace
pci_alloc_consistent itself already calls dma_alloc_coherent right away.

Reinette



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100206170348.GB9411@localhost>
2010-02-08 22:31 ` PROBLEM: iwlagn kernel 2.6.32.3 ooops Andrew Morton
2010-02-08 23:00   ` reinette chatre
2010-02-09  0:40     ` [Ilw] " reinette chatre
2010-02-09 16:52   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-02-09 17:04     ` reinette chatre [this message]
2010-02-10  8:21       ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-02-10 13:07         ` [PATCH] iwlwifi: use dma_alloc_coherent Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-02-10 17:47           ` reinette chatre
2010-02-18 12:35           ` lkml

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