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Subject[PATCH] [9/31] HWPOISON: comment the possible set_page_dirty() race
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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

---
mm/memory-failure.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: linux/mm/memory-failure.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ linux/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -689,6 +689,8 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct
/*
* Propagate the dirty bit from PTEs to struct page first, because we
* need this to decide if we should kill or just drop the page.
+ * XXX: the dirty test could be racy: set_page_dirty() may not always
+ * be called inside page lock (it's recommended but not enforced).
*/
mapping = page_mapping(p);
if (!PageDirty(p) && mapping && mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping)) {

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