Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage

2007-12-14 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:01:51AM +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > 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 > > > >

Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage

2007-12-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:01:51AM +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > 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 call

Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage

2007-12-11 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > 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 befor

Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage

2007-12-11 Thread Chuck Ebbert
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:

Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage

2007-12-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:55:10PM +, 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. >

[PATCH] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage

2007-11-28 Thread Hugh Dickins
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Desirable in 2.6