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[v5,1/5] dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error

Message ID 1462571591-3361-2-git-send-email-vishal.l.verma@intel.com (mailing list archive)
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Verma, Vishal L May 6, 2016, 9:53 p.m. UTC 
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

In preparation for consulting a badblocks list in pmem_direct_access(),
teach dax_pmd_fault() to fallback rather than fail immediately upon
encountering an error.  The thought being that reducing the span of the
dax request may avoid the error region.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
 fs/dax.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Jan Kara May 10, 2016, 2:15 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri 06-05-16 15:53:07, Vishal Verma wrote:
> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> 
> In preparation for consulting a badblocks list in pmem_direct_access(),
> teach dax_pmd_fault() to fallback rather than fail immediately upon
> encountering an error.  The thought being that reducing the span of the
> dax request may avoid the error region.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

The patch looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza
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diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 5a34f08..52f0044 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -1111,8 +1111,8 @@  int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 		long length = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax);
 
 		if (length < 0) {
-			result = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
-			goto out;
+			dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "dax-error fallback");
+			goto fallback;
 		}
 		if (length < PMD_SIZE) {
 			dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "dax-length too small");