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@@ -504,3 +504,8 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
[mandatory]
__fd_install() & fd_install() can now sleep. Callers should not
hold a spinlock or other resources that do not allow a schedule.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ any symlink that might use page_follow_link_light/page_put_link() must
+ have inode_nohighmem(inode) called before anything might start playing with
+ its pagecache.
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