From patchwork Mon Nov 26 16:58:15 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski X-Patchwork-Id: 201937 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from chlorine.canonical.com (chlorine.canonical.com [91.189.94.204]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D9732C00BF for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:15:22 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=chlorine.canonical.com) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Td2H3-0005Q0-4G; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:15:13 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Td2Ea-0003gW-KT for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:12:43 +0000 Received: from 189.58.19.107.dynamic.adsl.gvt.net.br ([189.58.19.107] helo=canonical.com) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Td2EZ-0006xg-Ue; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:12:40 +0000 From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 205/270] Staging: android: binder: Allow using highmem for binder buffers Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:58:15 -0200 Message-Id: <1353949160-26803-206-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 In-Reply-To: <1353949160-26803-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> References: <1353949160-26803-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , =?UTF-8?q?Arve=20Hj=C3=B8nnev=C3=A5g?= X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: =?UTF-8?q?Arve=20Hj=C3=B8nnev=C3=A5g?= 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 Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski --- drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c index 80acd0e..223639a 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ 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) { printk(KERN_ERR "binder: %d: binder_alloc_buf failed " "for page at %p\n", proc->pid, page_addr);