doh, i'm a moron.
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:51:25 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PATCH] kmalloc(HIGHUSER) crashes
The slab cache accepts the __GFP_HIGHMEM flag, but it will then die
horribly, tracing it through:
<linux/slab.h>
#define SLAB_LEVEL_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_HIGHMEM)
slab.c:kmem_cache_grow()
if (flags & ~(SLAB_DMA|SLAB_LEVEL_MASK|SLAB_NO_GROW))
BUG();
(...)
slab.c:kmem_getpages()
addr = (void*) __get_free_pages(flags, cachep->gfporder);
__get_free_pages calls page_address() on the allocated pages, but:
/*
* Permanent address of a page. Obviously must never be
* called on a highmem page.
*/
#define page_address(page) ((page)->virtual)
so I think we should apply the patch at the bottom of this email.
Ideally, I think slab.c should call alloc_pages and manage them directly
-- it calls virt_to_page often enough that it should become more intimate
with the linux struct page *. But I don't think we should allow HIGHMEM
kmallocs anyway; we'd run out of kmap space too readily.
Index: include/linux/slab.h
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RCS file: /var/cvs/linux/include/linux/slab.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1 include/linux/slab.h
--- include/linux/slab.h 2000/10/31 19:18:05 1.1.1.1
+++ include/linux/slab.h 2000/12/28 11:06:49
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ typedef struct kmem_cache_s kmem_cache_t
#define SLAB_NFS GFP_NFS
#define SLAB_DMA GFP_DMA
-#define SLAB_LEVEL_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_HIGHMEM)
+#define SLAB_LEVEL_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO)
#define SLAB_NO_GROW 0x00001000UL /* don't grow a cache */
/* flags to pass to kmem_cache_create().
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