linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

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Message-Id: <200705021135.32835.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 11:35:32 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Jon Burgess <jburgess777@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Gregoire Favre <Gregoire.Favre@...il.com>, linux-dvb@...uxtv.org,
	v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org,
	Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?


> Looks like you hit:
> 	BUG_ON(flags & ~(GFP_DMA | GFP_LEVEL_MASK | __GFP_NO_GROW));
> 
> I guess this was due to the vmalloc_32() change now passing in
> GFP_DMA32. Looks like that could be a problem with the
> x86_64-mm-vmalloc-32 patch. Andi?

Does this patch help?

Index: linux/mm/vmalloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ linux/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_stru
 		area->flags |= VM_VPAGES;
 	} else {
 		pages = kmalloc_node(array_size,
-				(gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO)),
+				(gfp_mask & GFP_LEVEL_MASK),
 				node);
 	}
 	area->pages = pages;


-Andi
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