[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 03/15] [PS3] Add region 1 memory early

[Hector Martin]

On 08/04/2011 09:05 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> The reason for that is to make sure the allocations will succeed.
> Chances are very
> slim you can allocate a contiguous 9 MiB buffer at any arbitrary time.

Fair enough, but then they don't need to happen as early as they do now;
any time during kernel startup should work (as long as they aren't freed
with the drivers if they're unloaded). How about switching to
__get_free_pages and doing the allocation inside an arch_initcall or
similar?

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