From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Willy Tarreau <wtarreau@hera.kernel.org>,
stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:21:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071211222143.GK14204@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711281844370.25292@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:55:10PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> tmpfs was misconverted to __GFP_ZERO in 2.6.11. There's an unusual case in
> which shmem_getpage receives the page from its caller instead of allocating.
> We must cover this case by clear_highpage before SetPageUptodate, as before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
> ---
> Desirable in 2.6.23-stable and 2.6.22-stable and 2.6.16-stable
>...
Thanks, applied to 2.6.16.
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-11 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 18:55 [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage Hugh Dickins
2007-12-11 22:21 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-12-12 0:00 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-12-12 5:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-12-15 0:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-15 5:43 ` Hugh Dickins
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