Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jan 14 2016 - 16:40:39 EST


On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Arrrgh. Try this:

Yeah, that would do it.

Al, did you check any other filesystems do this?

Also, I'm wondering if we should perhaps revert the "don't use
highmem". Do we actually have examples of running out of kmaps? Do we
care?

Linus