Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage

Adrian Bunk
2007-12-11T22:23:26Z

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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