From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, =?UTF-8?q?Arve=20Hj=C3=B8nnev=C3=A5g?= Subject: =?UTF-8?q?=5B=2018/54=5D=20Staging=3A=20android=3A=20binder=3A=20Allow=20using=20highmem=20for=20binder=20buffers?= Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:40:19 -0700 Message-Id: <20121029213804.797218970@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121029213802.697479610@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20121029213802.697479610@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Arve Hjønnevåg commit 585650dcec88e704a19bb226a34b6a7166111623 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(stru 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) { printk(KERN_ERR "binder: %d: binder_alloc_buf failed " "for page at %p\n", proc->pid, page_addr);