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Revision ea125892a17f43919c726777ed1e4929d41e7984 authored by Christoph Lameter on 17 May 2007, 05:11:21 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 17 May 2007, 12:23:06 UTC 
Fix page allocation flags in grow_dev_page()
 
grow_dev_page() simply passes GFP_NOFS to find_or_create_page.  This means
the allocation of radix tree nodes is done with GFP_NOFS and the allocation
of a new page is done using GFP_NOFS.

The mapping has a flags field that contains the necessary allocation flags
for the page cache allocation.  These need to be consulted in order to get
DMA and HIGHMEM allocations etc right.  And yes a blockdev could be
allowing Highmem allocations if its a ramdisk.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: ea125892a17f43919c726777ed1e4929d41e7984 authored by Christoph Lameter on 17 May 2007, 05:11:21 UTC
Fix page allocation flags in grow_dev_page()
Tip revision: ea12589
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