Commit db0480b3 authored by Wu Fengguang's avatar Wu Fengguang Committed by Andi Kleen

HWPOISON: comment the possible set_page_dirty() race

Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
parent 1668bfd5
......@@ -687,6 +687,8 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
/*
* 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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