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>
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index b62287d..dc47415 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -687,6 +687,8 @@
/*
* 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)) {