+ zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_bounce-to-per-zone-counter-fix-2.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled

     highmem.c: Use page after it may have been freed

has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is

     zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_bounce-to-per-zone-counter-fix-2.patch

See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this

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Subject: highmem.c: Use page after it may have been freed
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>


ZVC: highmem.c: Use page after it may have been freed

This is not really a problem since the zone of a page does not
change after it has been freed but its cleaner to use the
page as a reference before it has been freed.

Move the dec_zone_page_state before the free.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/highmem.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN mm/highmem.c~zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_bounce-to-per-zone-counter-fix-2 mm/highmem.c
--- 25/mm/highmem.c~zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_bounce-to-per-zone-counter-fix-2	Tue Jun 27 15:23:03 2006
+++ 25-akpm/mm/highmem.c	Tue Jun 27 15:23:03 2006
@@ -315,8 +315,8 @@ static void bounce_end_io(struct bio *bi
 		if (bvec->bv_page == org_vec->bv_page)
 			continue;
 
-		mempool_free(bvec->bv_page, pool);	
 		dec_zone_page_state(bvec->bv_page, NR_BOUNCE);
+		mempool_free(bvec->bv_page, pool);
 	}
 
 	bio_endio(bio_orig, bio_orig->bi_size, err);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from clameter@xxxxxxx are

origin.patch
zoned-vm-counters-create-vmstatc-h-from-page_allocc-h.patch
zoned-vm-counters-create-vmstatc-h-from-page_allocc-h-fix-2.patch
zoned-vm-counters-basic-zvc-zoned-vm-counter-implementation.patch
zoned-vm-counters-basic-zvc-zoned-vm-counter-implementation-tidy.patch
zoned-vm-counters-basic-zvc-zoned-vm-counter-implementation-speedup.patch
zoned-vm-counters-basic-zvc-zoned-vm-counter-implementation-speedup-fix.patch
zoned-vm-counters-convert-nr_mapped-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_pagecache-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-remove-nr_file_mapped-from-scan-control-structure.patch
zoned-vm-counters-remove-nr_file_mapped-from-scan-control-structure-fix.patch
zoned-vm-counters-split-nr_anon_pages-off-from-nr_file_mapped.patch
zoned-vm-counters-zone_reclaim-remove-proc-sys-vm-zone_reclaim_interval.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_slab-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_slab-to-per-zone-counter-fix-2.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_pagetables-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_dirty-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_writeback-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_unstable-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_bounce-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_bounce-to-per-zone-counter-fix-2.patch
zoned-vm-counters-remove-useless-struct-wbs.patch
use-zoned-vm-counters-for-numa-statistics-v3.patch
light-weight-event-counters-v5.patch

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