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| author | Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> | 2012-10-16 15:29:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-10-22 13:23:19 -0700 |
| commit | 585650dcec88e704a19bb226a34b6a7166111623 (patch) | |
| tree | d3ba31a220be932a89d5c9278149450e3dc494b6 /drivers/staging/android | |
| parent | 675d66b0ed5fd170d6a44cf8dbb3fa56a5347bdb (diff) | |
| download | lwn-585650dcec88e704a19bb226a34b6a7166111623.tar.gz lwn-585650dcec88e704a19bb226a34b6a7166111623.zip | |
Staging: android: binder: Allow using highmem for binder buffers
The default kernel mapping for the pages allocated for the binder
buffers is never used. Set the __GFP_HIGHMEM flag when allocating
these pages so we don't needlessly use low memory pages that may
be required elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/android')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c index db6c4c5c2551..5d4610babd8a 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct binder_proc *proc, int allocate, page = &proc->pages[(page_addr - proc->buffer) / PAGE_SIZE]; BUG_ON(*page); - *page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); + *page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO); if (*page == NULL) { pr_err("binder: %d: binder_alloc_buf failed " "for page at %p\n", proc->pid, page_addr); |