TTU_SYNC prevents an unlikely race, when try_to_unmap() returns shortly
before the page is accounted as unmapped. It is unlikely to coincide
with hwpoisoning, but now that we have the flag, hwpoison_user_mappings()
would do well to use it.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Patch added since the v1 series was posted.
mm/memory-failure.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index b6806e446567..e16edefca523 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ static int get_hwpoison_page(struct page *p, unsigned long flags,
static bool hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
int flags, struct page **hpagep)
{
- enum ttu_flags ttu = TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK;
+ enum ttu_flags ttu = TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK | TTU_SYNC;
struct address_space *mapping;
LIST_HEAD(tokill);
bool unmap_success;
--
2.26.2
