mm: drop VM_BUG_ON from __get_free_pages
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 22:46:01 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:20:29 +0000 (16:20 -0700)
There is no real reason to blow up just because the caller doesn't know
that __get_free_pages cannot return highmem pages.  Simply fix that up
silently.  Even if we have some confused users such a fixup will not be
harmful.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mask off __GFP_HIGHMEM]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180622162841.25114-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiankang Chen <chenjiankang1@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c

index 0303a3b..e1517bb 100644 (file)
@@ -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);