* Patch for swap usage of high memory
@ 2001-07-18 18:15 Dave McCracken
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From: Dave McCracken @ 2001-07-18 18:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rik van Riel; +Cc: linux-mm
This patch fixes the problem where pages allocated for swap space reads
will not be allocated from high memory.
Rik, could you please forward this to the kernel mailing list? I am
temporarily unable to reach it directly due to ECN problems.
Thanks,
Dave McCracken
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--- linux-2.4.6/mm/swap_state.c Mon Jun 11 21:15:27 2001
+++ linux-2.4.6-mm/mm/swap_state.c Wed Jul 18 12:56:01 2001
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
if (found_page)
goto out_free_swap;
- new_page = alloc_page(GFP_USER);
+ new_page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER);
if (!new_page)
goto out_free_swap; /* Out of memory */
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Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059
dmc@austin.ibm.com T/L 678-3059
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