[PATCH] fix race in pagevec_strip?
We can call try_to_release_page() with PagePrivate off and a valid page->mapping This may cause all sorts of trouble for the filesystem *_releasepage() handlers. XFS bombs out in that case. Lock the page before checking for page private. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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