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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/shmem.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/shmem.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 5a81b1ee4f7a..08a3bc2fba61 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1195,6 +1195,7 @@ static int shmem_populate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, err = shmem_getpage(inode, pgoff, &page, sgp, NULL); if (err) return err; + /* Page may still be null, but only if nonblock was set. */ if (page) { mark_page_accessed(page); err = install_page(mm, vma, addr, page, prot); @@ -1202,7 +1203,10 @@ static int shmem_populate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, page_cache_release(page); return err; } - } else if (nonblock) { + } else { + /* No page was found just because we can't read it in + * now (being here implies nonblock != 0), but the page + * may exist, so set the PTE to fault it in later. */ err = install_file_pte(mm, vma, addr, pgoff, prot); if (err) return err; |