Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758155AbYG0D7v (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:59:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755823AbYG0D7i (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:59:38 -0400 Received: from extu-mxob-1.symantec.com ([216.10.194.28]:50664 "EHLO extu-mxob-1.symantec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755815AbYG0D7h (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:59:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:59:09 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@blonde.site To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh cc: Kel Modderman , Andrew Morton , Alexey Dobriyan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: tmpfs: kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:814 In-Reply-To: <20080727033137.GA3489@khazad-dum.debian.net> Message-ID: References: <200807262210.11502.kel@otaku42.de> <20080727033137.GA3489@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 662 Lines: 18 On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > on 2.6.26. It's using posix_fadvise on directories, and the shmem_readpage > > method added in 2.6.23 is letting POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED allocate useless pages > ... > > > Cc: stable@kernel.org > > Is the fix needed on 2.6.25 as well? That's right: I introduced the bug in 2.6.23, so all since want the fix. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/