patches.dma-mapping/mm-cma-don-t-replace-lowmem-pages-with-highmem.patch

From dhobsong@igel.co.jp Mon Oct 29 00:53:17 2012
From: Damian Hobson-Garcia <dhobsong@igel.co.jp>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:50:52 +0900
Subject: [PATCH v2 35/58] mm: cma: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem
To: greg@kroah.com, laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, horms@verge.net.au
Cc: ltsi-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, dhobsong@igel.co.jp
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From: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>

The filesystem layer expects pages in the block device's mapping to not
be in highmem (the mapping's gfp mask is set in bdget()), but CMA can
currently replace lowmem pages with highmem pages, leading to crashes in
filesystem code such as the one below:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000400
  pgd = c0c98000
  [00000400] *pgd=00c91831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
  Internal error: Oops: 817 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
  CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.5.0-rc5+ #80)
  PC is at __memzero+0x24/0x80
  ...
  Process fsstress (pid: 323, stack limit = 0xc0cbc2f0)
  Backtrace:
  [<c010e3f0>] (ext4_getblk+0x0/0x180) from [<c010e58c>] (ext4_bread+0x1c/0x98)
  [<c010e570>] (ext4_bread+0x0/0x98) from [<c0117944>] (ext4_mkdir+0x160/0x3bc)
   r4:c15337f0
  [<c01177e4>] (ext4_mkdir+0x0/0x3bc) from [<c00c29e0>] (vfs_mkdir+0x8c/0x98)
  [<c00c2954>] (vfs_mkdir+0x0/0x98) from [<c00c2a60>] (sys_mkdirat+0x74/0xac)
   r6:00000000 r5:c152eb40 r4:000001ff r3:c14b43f0
  [<c00c29ec>] (sys_mkdirat+0x0/0xac) from [<c00c2ab8>] (sys_mkdir+0x20/0x24)
   r6:beccdcf0 r5:00074000 r4:beccdbbc
  [<c00c2a98>] (sys_mkdir+0x0/0x24) from [<c000e3c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)

Fix this by replacing only highmem pages with highmem.

Reported-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6a6dccba2fdc2a69f1f36b8f1c0acc8598e7221b)

Signed-off-by: Damian Hobson-Garcia <dhobsong@igel.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5645,7 +5645,12 @@ static struct page *
 __alloc_contig_migrate_alloc(struct page *page, unsigned long private,
 			     int **resultp)
 {
-	return alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE);
+	gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_USER | __GFP_MOVABLE;
+
+	if (PageHighMem(page))
+		gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
+
+	return alloc_page(gfp_mask);
 }
 
 /* [start, end) must belong to a single zone. */