iommu_alloc failure and panic

Mark Haverkamp markh at osdl.org
Sat Jan 28 10:37:34 EST 2006


On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 12:34 +1300, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:39:50PM -0800, Mark Haverkamp wrote:
> 
> > I would have thought that the npages would be 1 now.
> 
> No, npages is the size of the allocation coming from the driver, that
> won't chance. The table blocksize just says how wide the cacheline size
> is, i.e. how far it should advance between allocations.
> 
> This is a patch that should probably have been added a while ago, to
> give a bit more info. Can you apply it and give it a go?

OK, I'll try it and let you know.

Thanks,
Mark.
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Mark Haverkamp <markh at osdl.org>




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