Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jeff Moyer <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error | | Date | Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:55:43 -0400 |
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Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> writes:
> 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>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
> --- > fs/dax.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c > index 90322eb..ec6417b 100644 > --- a/fs/dax.c > +++ b/fs/dax.c > @@ -945,8 +945,8 @@ 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");
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