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 <[email protected]>
> ---

What are the symptoms of the bug this fixes?

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