This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-testing branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From aac6830ec1cb681544212838911cdc57f2638216 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:49:05 +0800
Subject: android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area
VM_IOREMAP is used to access hardware through a mechanism called
I/O mapped memory. Android binder is a IPC machanism which will
not access I/O memory.
And VM_IOREMAP has alignment requiement which may not needed in
binder.
__get_vm_area_node()
{
...
if (flags & VM_IOREMAP)
align = 1ul << clamp_t(int, fls_long(size),
PAGE_SHIFT, IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER);
...
}
This patch will save some kernel vm area, especially for 32bit os.
In 32bit OS, kernel vm area is only 240MB. We may got below
error when launching a app:
<3>[ 4482.440053] binder_alloc: binder_alloc_mmap_handler: 15728 8ce67000-8cf65000 get_vm_area failed -12
<3>[ 4483.218817] binder_alloc: binder_alloc_mmap_handler: 15745 8ce67000-8cf65000 get_vm_area failed -12
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
----
V3: update comments
V2: update comments
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
index 07b866afee54..5a426c877dfb 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ int binder_alloc_mmap_handler(struct binder_alloc *alloc,
goto err_already_mapped;
}
- area = get_vm_area(vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start, VM_IOREMAP);
+ area = get_vm_area(vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start, VM_ALLOC);
if (area == NULL) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
failure_string = "get_vm_area";
--
2.16.1