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| author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> | 2018-08-17 15:46:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-17 16:20:29 -0700 |
| commit | 9ea9a68064035dee70f465f605a3e63990e33bd9 (patch) | |
| tree | bab1e0e6b994cf84e92d31162241d012ea2e08fb /mm | |
| parent | 974e6d66b6b5c6e2d6a3ccc18b2f9a0b472be5b4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9ea9a68064035dee70f465f605a3e63990e33bd9.tar.bz2 | |
mm: drop VM_BUG_ON from __get_free_pages
There is no real reason to blow up just because the caller doesn't know
that __get_free_pages cannot return highmem pages. Simply fix that up
silently. Even if we have some confused users such a fixup will not be
harmful.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mask off __GFP_HIGHMEM]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180622162841.25114-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiankang Chen <chenjiankang1@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 0303a3b24610..e1517bb143dc 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4404,19 +4404,15 @@ out: EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_pages_nodemask); /* - * Common helper functions. + * Common helper functions. Never use with __GFP_HIGHMEM because the returned + * address cannot represent highmem pages. Use alloc_pages and then kmap if + * you need to access high mem. */ unsigned long __get_free_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) { struct page *page; - /* - * __get_free_pages() returns a virtual address, which cannot represent - * a highmem page - */ - VM_BUG_ON((gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGHMEM) != 0); - - page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order); + page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM, order); if (!page) return 0; return (unsigned long) page_address(page); |