nommu warning message

[Larry Finger]

For the driver rtl8192cu (a USB wireless device), the current version loads the 
15KB firmware asynchronously one 32-bit quantity at a time. Although 
inefficient. this method works with USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 adapters; however, it 
fails on at least one USB 3.0 adapter with "xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: ERROR no room 
on ep ring" errors.

These errors are believed to arise from small, fixed-size ep rings. There is a 
vendor driver that works with that same hardware. The major difference is that 
it uses synchronous block writes of 254 bytes. When I tried this with the 
in-kernel driver, each block write yields a warning as shown below:

nommu_map_single: overflow 41000340d020+254 of device mask ffffffff

The only remaining difference between the two drivers is that the vendor version 
uses firmware hard coded into the driver while the kernel version uses a file 
from /lib/firmware.

My cpu info is:

----- /proc/cpuinfo -----
  processor     : 0
  vendor_id     : AuthenticAMD
  cpu family    : 15
  model         : 104
  model name    : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 TL-60
  stepping      : 2
  cpu MHz               : 2000.000
  cache size    : 512 KB
  physical id   : 0
  siblings      : 2
  core id               : 0
  cpu cores     : 2
  apicid                : 0
  initial apicid        : 0
  fpu           : yes
  fpu_exception : yes
  cpuid level   : 1
  wp            : yes
  flags         : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov 
pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 
3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic 
cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch lbrv
  bogomips      : 4001.06
  TLB size      : 1024 4K pages
  clflush size  : 64
  cache_alignment       : 64
  address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps


Could someone please explain the meaning of the above messages? Even with them 
present, the device works.

Thanks,

Larry
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