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authorArve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>2012-10-16 15:29:55 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-22 13:23:19 -0700
commit585650dcec88e704a19bb226a34b6a7166111623 (patch)
treed3ba31a220be932a89d5c9278149450e3dc494b6 /drivers/staging
parent675d66b0ed5fd170d6a44cf8dbb3fa56a5347bdb (diff)
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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')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/android/binder.c2
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);
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