Commit 8518609d authored Oct 19, 2007 by Robert P. J. Day Committed by Adrian Bunk Oct 19, 2007

Explain clearly why kmalloc() can't use __GFP_HIGHMEM.



Fix the wishy-washy comment to clearly explain why kmalloc() can't
use the __GFP_HIGHMEM zone modifier.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

parent 3a4fa0a2

mm/nommu.c

+2 −1

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		@@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfree);
		void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot)
		{
		/*
		* kmalloc doesn't like __GFP_HIGHMEM for some reason
		* You can't specify __GFP_HIGHMEM with kmalloc() since kmalloc()
		* returns only a logical address.
		*/
		return kmalloc(size, (gfp_mask \| __GFP_COMP) & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
		}