From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: JiSheng Zhang <jszhang3@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com, adrian.hunter@nokia.com,
rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: Fix allocation of volume table
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:05:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A858B4A.9000705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090811094455.6f9cbbfe@ustc>
On 08/11/2009 04:44 AM, JiSheng Zhang wrote:
> We can't use vmalloc for the buffer used for volume table for some NAND
> or NOR drivers may pass the buffer to DMA. And the volume table size
> a.k.a vtbl_size is small so we can use kmalloc or kzalloc for it instead
>
> Signed-off-by: JiSheng Zhang<jszhang3@gmail.com>
I do not have objections if this patch becomes a member of a series of
patches which kick vmalloc from whole UBI. Applying just this patch does
not make much sense.
You may go through UBI code and try to split large vmalloc-ed buffers on
smaller kmalloc-ed ones.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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2009-08-11 1:44 [PATCH] UBI: Fix allocation of volume table JiSheng Zhang
2009-08-14 16:05 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
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