Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:04:13 -0400 | From | Martin Hicks <> | Subject | [PATCH] pgtables: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation with preempt disabled |
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Hi Andrew,
This is a fix to the pgtable_quicklist code. There is a GFP_KERNEL allocation in pgtable_quicklist_alloc(), which spews the usual warnings if the kernel is under heavy VM pressure and the reclaim code is invoked.
This patch is against 2.6.12-rc2-mm2
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Index: linux-2.6.12-rc2.wk/include/asm-ia64/pgalloc.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.12-rc2.wk.orig/include/asm-ia64/pgalloc.h 2005-04-19 09:01:06.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2.wk/include/asm-ia64/pgalloc.h 2005-04-19 09:53:39.000000000 -0700 @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static inline void *pgtable_quicklist_al ret[0] = 0; --pgtable_quicklist_size; } else { - ret = (unsigned long *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); + ret = (unsigned long *)__get_free_page(GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_ZERO); } preempt_enable(); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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