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-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 42fb84e9e81..8f09333f78e 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfree);
void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot)
{
/*
- * kmalloc doesn't like __GFP_HIGHMEM for some reason
+ * You can't specify __GFP_HIGHMEM with kmalloc() since kmalloc()
+ * returns only a logical address.
*/
return kmalloc(size, (gfp_mask | __GFP_COMP) & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
}