3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Arve Hjønnevåg <a...@android.com> 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 <a...@android.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- 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) { pr_err("binder: %d: binder_alloc_buf failed " "for page at %p\n", proc->pid, page_addr); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/