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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:00:39 -0500
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
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>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, stable@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage
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@...itas.com>
> ---
What are the symptoms of the bug this fixes?
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