Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261152AbVDSRER (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:04:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261179AbVDSRER (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:04:17 -0400 Received: from galileo.bork.org ([134.117.69.57]:59861 "HELO galileo.bork.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261152AbVDSREN (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:04:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:04:13 -0400 From: Martin Hicks To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, holt@sgi.com Subject: [PATCH] pgtables: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation with preempt disabled Message-ID: <20050419170413.GB21616@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1133 Lines: 31 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 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/