[PATCH] fix brd allocation flags

From: Petr Tesarik
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 17:14:23 EST


Hello,

while looking at the implementation of the Ram backed block device
driver, I stumbled across a write-only local variable, which makes
little sense, so I assume it should actually work like this:

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
index 8536480..7bd7663 100644
--- a/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static struct page *brd_insert_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector)
#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP
gfp_flags |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
#endif
- page = alloc_page(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO);
+ page = alloc_page(gfp_flags);
if (!page)
return NULL;


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