linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix cleancache crash

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Date:	Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:56:46 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	ngupta@...are.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	francis.moro@...il.com, dan.magenheimer@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix cleancache crash

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:19:22 CDT, Seth Jennings said:
> After commit, c5f5c4db, cleancache crashes on the first
> successful get. This was caused by a remaining virt_to_page()
> call in zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free() that only gets
> run in the cleancache path.
> 
> The patch converts the virt_to_page() to struct page
> casting like was done for other instances in c5f5c4db.
> 
> Based on 3.1-rc4
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

I was seeing all sorts of bizzare memory corruptions and panics
and crashes while testing zcache - average uptime was only 2-3 hours.
With this patch applied, now have close to 24 hours of crash-free operation.
Feel free to add this if it isn't in somebody's tree already:

Tested-By: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>

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