Re: Regression introduced by commit"lib/bitmap.c: speed up bitmap_find_free_region"

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri May 31 2013 - 15:05:54 EST


On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:15:10 +0530 Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While testing MFC decoder on Exynos machines, I encountered some
> memory allocation errors due to failure of dma_alloc_coherent().
> File: drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc_ctrl.c Line: 38.
>
> Git bisect pointed me to the following commit as the first bad commit
> (linux-next tree of 20130531):
>
> commit 3d5272d9b289cd0930b2ea9984406d757a72f4dd
> Author: Chanho Min <chanho.min@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu May 23 10:37:28 2013 +1000
> lib/bitmap.c: speed up bitmap_find_free_region
>
> Reverting this (and the commit 197e1cf7
> ("ib-bitmapc-speed-up-bitmap_find_free_region-fix") ) fixes this
> issue.
>
> Looks like some regression has been introduced by the above patch?

Thanks. I dropped the patches for now, to minimise linux-next
breakage. Hopefully we'll be able to identify and fix this at a later
time.

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