HWPOISON: comment the possible set_page_dirty() race
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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@ -687,6 +687,8 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
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/*
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* Propagate the dirty bit from PTEs to struct page first, because we
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* need this to decide if we should kill or just drop the page.
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* XXX: the dirty test could be racy: set_page_dirty() may not always
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* be called inside page lock (it's recommended but not enforced).
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*/
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mapping = page_mapping(p);
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if (!PageDirty(p) && mapping && mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping)) {
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