linux-kernel - [PATCH] [9/31] HWPOISON: comment the possible set_page

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Message-Id: <20091208211625.5B805B151F@basil.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Tue,  8 Dec 2009 22:16:25 +0100 (CET)
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	fengguang.wu@...el.com, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH] [9/31] HWPOISON: comment the possible set_page_dirty() race


From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>

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