From: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:29:55 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Staging: android: binder: Allow using highmem for binder buffers X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~3680^2~1713^2~10 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=585650dcec88e704a19bb226a34b6a7166111623;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git 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> --- 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);