Re: tmpfs: kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:814

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Sat Jul 26 2008 - 23:31:54 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx

Is the fix needed on 2.6.25 as well?

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Henrique Holschuh
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