On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:16:41PM +0530, Maximus wrote:
> Hi,
> Am using a linux 2.6.19 kernel for arm. the dma_alloc_coherent
> function call in the kernel for 38400 bytes fails.
>
> Has anyone faced this problem before?.
>
> What could be make dma_alloc_coherent to success sometimes and fail
> sometimes?.
Memory fragmentation. Large allocations (> 1 page) are always unreliable.
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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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