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Patch for swap usage of high memory

PATCH Dave McCracken 1 participant 1 message Jul 18, 2001

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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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mm/swap_state.c +0 -0
@@ -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
[email protected] T/L 678-3059

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