The patch titled
percpu: use the right flag for get_vm_area()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
percpu-use-the-right-flag-for-get_vm_area.patch
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Subject: percpu: use the right flag for get_vm_area()
From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
get_vm_area() only accepts VM_* flags, not GFP_*.
And according to the doc of get_vm_area(), here should be VM_ALLOC.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/percpu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/percpu.c~percpu-use-the-right-flag-for-get_vm_area mm/percpu.c
--- a/mm/percpu.c~percpu-use-the-right-flag-for-get_vm_area
+++ a/mm/percpu.c
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ static struct pcpu_chunk *alloc_pcpu_chu
chunk->map_alloc = PCPU_DFL_MAP_ALLOC;
chunk->map[chunk->map_used++] = pcpu_unit_size;
- chunk->vm = get_vm_area(pcpu_chunk_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ chunk->vm = get_vm_area(pcpu_chunk_size, VM_ALLOC);
if (!chunk->vm) {
free_pcpu_chunk(chunk);
return NULL;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from amwang@xxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
vfs-allow-file-truncations-when-both-suid-and-write-permissions-set.patch
xtensa-use-generic-sys_pipe.patch
percpu-use-the-right-flag-for-get_vm_area.patch
kcore-fix-proc-kcores-statst_size.patch
elf-clean-up-fill_note_info.patch
elf-clean-up-fill_note_info-fix.patch
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