Re: kiobuf / vm bug

From: Gerd Knorr (kraxel@bytesex.org)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 12:32:00 EST


Gerd Knorr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I have found a kiobuf-related bug in the VM of recent linux
> kernels. 2.4.13 is fine, 2.4.14-pre1 doesn't boot my machine,
> 2.4.14-pre2 + newer kernels are broken.

[ ... ]

ok, the patch below (suggested by Andrea) fixes it.

  Gerd

--------------------- cut here -----------------
--- 2.4.15-pre4/mm/memory.c~ Tue Nov 13 10:52:01 2001
+++ 2.4.15-pre4/mm/memory.c Thu Nov 15 18:24:16 2001
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@
                 if (map) {
                         if (iobuf->locked)
                                 UnlockPage(map);
- __free_page(map);
+ page_cache_release(map);
                 }
         }
         
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