Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage

Chuck Ebbert
2007-12-12T00:01:22Z

On 11/28/2007 01:55 PM, 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>
> ---

What are the symptoms of the bug this fixes?