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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tmpfs: kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:814
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:59:09 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807270451250.5297@blonde.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080727033137.GA3489@khazad-dum.debian.net>

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > on 2.6.26.  It's using posix_fadvise on directories, and the shmem_readpage
> > method added in 2.6.23 is letting POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED allocate useless pages
> ...
> 
> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> 
> Is the fix needed on 2.6.25 as well?

That's right: I introduced the bug in 2.6.23, so all since want the fix.

Hugh

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-27  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-26 12:10 tmpfs: kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:814 Kel Modderman
2008-07-26 14:33 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-07-26 22:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-27  0:44   ` Kel Modderman
2008-07-27  3:31   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-27  3:59     ` Hugh Dickins [this message]

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