girish wrote:
i'd like to know why page(s) for inodes are allocated with
GFP_HIGHUSER & not with GFP_USER mask? is there any particular need
that the address_space be set with GFP_HIGHUSER flag?
This is done so that pagecache pages can live in highmem.
i intend to allocate highmem pages strictly to user processes. my idea
is to completely avoid kernel mapping for these pages.
That's not going to work, think of ptrace and friends...
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