[merged] mm-hwpoison-remove-obsolete-comment.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm/memory-failure.c: remove obsolete comment
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-hwpoison-remove-obsolete-comment.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/memory-failure.c: remove obsolete comment

With the introduction of mf_mutex, most of memory error handling process
is mutually exclusive, so the in-line comment about subtlety about
double-checking PageHWPoison is no more correct.  So remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220125025601.3054511-1-naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/memory-failure.c |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-hwpoison-remove-obsolete-comment
+++ a/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -2150,12 +2150,6 @@ static int __soft_offline_page(struct pa
 		.gfp_mask = GFP_USER | __GFP_MOVABLE | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL,
 	};
 
-	/*
-	 * Check PageHWPoison again inside page lock because PageHWPoison
-	 * is set by memory_failure() outside page lock. Note that
-	 * memory_failure() also double-checks PageHWPoison inside page lock,
-	 * so there's no race between soft_offline_page() and memory_failure().
-	 */
 	lock_page(page);
 	if (!PageHuge(page))
 		wait_on_page_writeback(page);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx are





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