linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear

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Message-ID: <20071211222143.GK14204@stusta.de>
Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:21:43 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <wtarreau@...a.kernel.org>, stable@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage

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@...itas.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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