Commit 6626c5d5 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm: prep_zero_page() in irq is a bug

prep_zero_page() uses KM_USER0 and hence may not be used from IRQ context, at
least for highmem pages.

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 17cf4406
......@@ -217,6 +217,11 @@ static inline void prep_zero_page(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp_flags)
int i;
BUG_ON((gfp_flags & (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_HIGHMEM)) == __GFP_HIGHMEM);
/*
* clear_highpage() will use KM_USER0, so it's a bug to use __GFP_ZERO
* and __GFP_HIGHMEM from hard or soft interrupt context.
*/
BUG_ON((gfp_flags & __GFP_HIGHMEM) && in_interrupt());
for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
clear_highpage(page + i);
}
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