Re: Dirty/Access bits vs. page content

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I just triggered it a second time.  It only happens with my debugging
> config[1] *and* those two fix patches.  It doesn't happen on the vanilla
> kernel with lost dirty bit.

Ok. So looking at it some more, I'm becoming more and more convinced
that we do need to make that set_page_dirty() call in
free_pages_and_swap_cache() be a set_page_dirty_lock() instead.

Does that make things work for you?

             Linus

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