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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -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); |