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Grant Erickson 33b53716bc mtd: create function to perform large allocations 
Introduce a common function to handle large, contiguous kmalloc buffer
allocations by exponentially backing off on the size of the requested
kernel transfer buffer until it succeeds or until the requested
transfer buffer size falls below the page size.

This helps ensure the operation can succeed under low-memory, highly-
fragmented situations albeit somewhat more slowly.

Artem: so this patch solves the problem that the kernel tries to kmalloc too
large buffers, which (a) may fail and does fail - people complain about this,
and (b) slows down the system in case of high memory fragmentation, because
the kernel starts dropping caches, writing back, swapping, etc. But we do not
really have to allocate a lot of memory to do the I/O, we may do this even with
as little as one min. I/O unit (NAND page) of RAM. So the idea of this patch is
that if the user asks to read or write a lot, we try to kmalloc a lot, with GFP
flags which make the kernel _not_ drop caches, etc. If we can allocate it - good,
if not - we try to allocate twice as less, and so on, until we reach the min.
I/O unit size, which is our last resort allocation and use the normal
GFP_KERNEL flag.

Artem: re-write the allocation function so that it makes sure the allocated
buffer is aligned to the min. I/O size of the flash.

Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <marathon96@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Tested-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
 		2011-05-25 01:59:43 +01:00
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acpi ACPI / PM: Avoid infinite recurrence while registering power resources 2011-04-26 11:33:18 +02:00
amba PM / Hibernate: Introduce CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS 2011-04-11 22:54:42 +02:00
ata Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev 2011-05-14 12:19:18 -07:00
atm drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device 2011-05-18 12:32:23 -06:00
auxdisplay Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
base PM / Wakeup: Fix initialization of wakeup-related device sysfs files 2011-04-26 11:33:09 +02:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2011-05-18 06:49:02 -07:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
cdrom cdrom: always check_disk_change() on open 2011-04-29 10:17:25 +02:00
char drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device 2011-05-18 12:32:23 -06:00
clk CLKDEV: Fix clkdev return value for NULL clk case 2011-04-30 10:14:08 +01:00
clocksource
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connector connector: fix skb double free in cn_rx_skb() 2011-04-12 14:38:57 -07:00
cpufreq Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
cpuidle
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crypto Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
dca drivers/dca/dca-core.c: use list_move() instead of list_del()/list_add() combination 2011-03-22 17:44:12 -07:00
dio
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dma Merge branch 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-04-11 15:44:38 -07:00
edac drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device 2011-05-18 12:32:23 -06:00
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firewire Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 2011-05-04 14:21:39 -07:00
firmware sigma-firmware: loader for Analog Devices' SigmaStudio 2011-03-22 17:44:15 -07:00
gpio Merge branch 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-04-11 15:44:38 -07:00
gpu drm: Take lock around probes for drm_fb_helper_hotplug_event 2011-05-16 12:01:43 +10:00
hid Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
hwmon hwmon: (twl4030-madc-hwmon) Return proper error if hwmon_device_register fails 2011-05-01 09:06:35 -07:00
hwspinlock
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i2c drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device 2011-05-18 12:32:23 -06:00
ide ide: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for ide-gd and ide-cd 2011-04-21 19:43:59 +02:00
idle
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infiniband Revert wrong fixes for common misspellings 2011-04-26 23:31:11 -07:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2011-05-12 10:41:31 -07:00
isdn Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
leds drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE 2011-05-18 02:55:22 -07:00
lguest Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
macintosh Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
mca
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md raid5: fix build error, sector_t usage 2011-04-21 10:00:00 -07:00
media Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2011-05-18 03:16:38 -07:00
memstick Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
message block: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for legacy/fringe drivers 2011-04-21 21:33:05 +02:00
mfd mfd: Fix for the TWL4030 PM sleep/wakeup sequence 2011-05-11 11:09:58 +02:00
misc drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c: fix the wrong members of gru_chip 2011-04-14 16:06:55 -07:00
mmc drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device 2011-05-18 12:32:23 -06:00
mtd mtd: create function to perform large allocations 2011-05-25 01:59:43 +01:00
net drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device 2011-05-18 12:32:23 -06:00
nfc
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nubus
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of Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
oprofile
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parisc Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
parport parport_pc.c: correctly release the requested region for the IT887x 2011-04-19 16:36:24 -07:00
pci PCI: Clear bridge resource flags if requested size is 0 2011-05-16 18:33:35 -07:00
pcmcia Revert wrong fixes for common misspellings 2011-04-26 23:31:11 -07:00
platform eeepc-laptop: Use ACPI handle to identify rfkill port 2011-05-09 10:48:47 -04:00
pnp Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
power drivers: Final irq namespace conversion 2011-03-29 14:48:19 +02:00
pps Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
ps3 Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
rapidio rapidio: fix default routing initialization 2011-05-18 02:55:22 -07:00
regulator Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
rtc Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-05-17 08:02:04 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2011-05-18 06:49:02 -07:00
sbus Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
scsi Merge branch 'devicetree/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-05-18 13:25:57 -07:00
sfi Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
sh sh: Fix irq cleanup fallout 2011-03-30 00:15:49 +02:00
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spi Merge branch 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-04-11 15:44:38 -07:00
ssb Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
staging Merge branch 'staging-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6 2011-05-04 14:23:41 -07:00
target Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
tc
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telephony Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
thermal
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tty drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device 2011-05-18 12:32:23 -06:00
uio Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
usb drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device 2011-05-18 12:32:23 -06:00
uwb Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
vhost
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video Merge branch 'fbmem' 2011-05-14 11:24:32 -07:00
virtio virtio_pci: Prevent double-free of pci regions after device hot-unplug 2011-04-21 22:57:00 +09:30
vlynq vlynq: Convert irq functions 2011-03-28 19:33:04 +02:00
w1 Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
watchdog drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device 2011-05-18 12:32:23 -06:00
xen PM: Add missing syscore_suspend() and syscore_resume() calls 2011-04-20 00:36:11 +02:00
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