From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756820AbZFALQv (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:16:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754712AbZFALQn (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:16:43 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:43153 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754551AbZFALQn (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:16:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:16:41 +0200 From: Nick Piggin To: Andi Kleen Cc: hugh@veritas.com, riel@redhat.com, chris.mason@oracle.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] [13/16] HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v4 Message-ID: <20090601111641.GA5018@wotan.suse.de> References: <200905291135.124267638@firstfloor.org> <20090529213539.4FACC1D0296@basil.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090529213539.4FACC1D0296@basil.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:35:39PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > + mapping = page_mapping(p); > + if (!PageDirty(p) && !PageWriteback(p) && > + !PageAnon(p) && !PageSwapBacked(p) && > + mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { Haven't had another good look at this yet, but if you hold the page locked, and have done a wait_on_page_writeback, then PageWriteback == true is a kernel bug.