From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39554 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753534AbeBBRNq (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2018 12:13:46 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Ganesh Mahendran , Martijn Coenen , Todd Kjos Subject: [PATCH 4.14 145/156] android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:58:46 +0100 Message-Id: <20180202140846.937885894@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180202140840.242829545@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180202140840.242829545@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ganesh Mahendran commit aac6830ec1cb681544212838911cdc57f2638216 upstream. VM_IOREMAP is used to access hardware through a mechanism called I/O mapped memory. Android binder is a IPC machanism which will not access I/O memory. And VM_IOREMAP has alignment requiement which may not needed in binder. __get_vm_area_node() { ... if (flags & VM_IOREMAP) align = 1ul << clamp_t(int, fls_long(size), PAGE_SHIFT, IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER); ... } This patch will save some kernel vm area, especially for 32bit os. In 32bit OS, kernel vm area is only 240MB. We may got below error when launching a app: <3>[ 4482.440053] binder_alloc: binder_alloc_mmap_handler: 15728 8ce67000-8cf65000 get_vm_area failed -12 <3>[ 4483.218817] binder_alloc: binder_alloc_mmap_handler: 15745 8ce67000-8cf65000 get_vm_area failed -12 Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran Acked-by: Martijn Coenen Acked-by: Todd Kjos Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ int binder_alloc_mmap_handler(struct bin goto err_already_mapped; } - area = get_vm_area(vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start, VM_IOREMAP); + area = get_vm_area(vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start, VM_ALLOC); if (area == NULL) { ret = -ENOMEM; failure_string = "get_vm_area";