follow: no put_page() if FOLL_GET not specified. Seems that one of the side effects of the dirty pages patch in 2.6.17-rc4-mm3 is that follow_pages does a page_put if FOLL_GET is not set in the flags passed to it. This breaks sys_move_pages() page status determination. Only put_page if we did a get_page() before. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3/mm/memory.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3.orig/mm/memory.c 2006-05-22 18:03:32.280767264 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3/mm/memory.c 2006-05-23 10:01:48.917295988 -0700 @@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_ set_page_dirty(page); mark_page_accessed(page); } - if (!(flags & FOLL_GET)) + if (!(flags & FOLL_GET) && (flags & FOLL_TOUCH)) put_page(page); goto out;