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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:48:34 +0100 Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> wrote: > end_swap_bio_write() simply does: > > if (!uptodate) > SetPageError(page); > > I know the uptodate flag is being cleared in the error cases. I'm having > trouble working out which code the setting of an error flag for a swap > page should trigger (any pointers appreciated!). I noticed its also used > for the read case which is unrecoverable. > > Should this code be marking the page as dirty and the section of the > swap device as bad instead, does it already do that or is that not > possible for some reason? > > Any comments and/or pointers to documentation on this would be > appreciated. > Now, swap-write-failure-fixup.patch is merged in -mm kernel. == http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc4/2.6.18-rc4-mm3/broken-out/mm-swap-write-failure-fixup.patch == error message comes and a page turns to be dirty again. Thanks, - Kame - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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