From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757053AbXLKWX0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:23:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753769AbXLKWVz (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:21:55 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:38500 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756080AbXLKWVm (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:21:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:21:43 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Willy Tarreau , stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage Message-ID: <20071211222143.GK14204@stusta.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > --- > Desirable in 2.6.23-stable and 2.6.22-stable and 2.6.16-stable >... Thanks, applied to 2.6.16. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed