From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
hugh@veritas.com, npiggin@suse.de, riel@redhat.com,
lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [13/16] POISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM II
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:57:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090409145746.GK14687@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239287859.23150.57.camel@think.oraclecorp.com>
> Even though try_to_releasepage only checks page_writeback() the lower
> filesystems all bail on dirty pages or dirty buffers (see the checks
> done by try_to_free_buffers).
>
> It looks like the only way we have to clean a page and all the buffers
> in it is the invalidatepage call. But that doesn't return success or
> failure, so maybe invalidatepage followed by releasepage?
Ok. I'll poke at it more.
>
> I'll have to read harder next week, the FS invalidatepage may expect
> truncate to be the only caller.
I have to be careful with locks; another lock would deadlock. Ok
I could drop the page lock temporarily, but that would be somewhat
risky of someone else coming in unexpectedly.
-Andi
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Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-07 15:09 [PATCH] [0/16] POISON: Intro Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:09 ` [PATCH] [1/16] POISON: Add support for high priority work items Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:09 ` [PATCH] [2/16] POISON: Add page flag for poisoned pages Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 21:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-08 0:29 ` Russ Anderson
2009-04-08 6:26 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-08 5:14 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-08 6:24 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-08 7:00 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-08 9:38 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:09 ` [PATCH] [3/16] POISON: Handle poisoned pages in page free Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 23:21 ` Minchan Kim
2009-04-08 6:51 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-08 7:39 ` Minchan Kim
2009-04-08 9:41 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-08 10:05 ` Minchan Kim
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [4/16] POISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [5/16] POISON: Add support for poison swap entries Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 21:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-07 21:56 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 21:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-07 22:25 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [6/16] POISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for poison signals Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [7/16] POISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler Andi Kleen
2009-05-26 12:55 ` Hidehiro Kawai
2009-05-26 13:18 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [8/16] POISON: Add various poison checks in mm/memory.c Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 19:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-04-07 19:31 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 20:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-04-07 20:24 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 20:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [9/16] POISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_POISON handling to x86 page fault handler Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [10/16] POISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 21:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-07 21:59 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 22:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-07 22:35 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [11/16] POISON: Handle poisoned pages in try_to_unmap Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [12/16] POISON: Handle poisoned pages in set_page_dirty() Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [13/16] POISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 16:03 ` Rik van Riel
2009-04-07 16:30 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 18:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-04-07 19:40 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-08 17:03 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-09 7:29 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-09 7:58 ` [PATCH] [13/16] POISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM II Andi Kleen
2009-04-09 13:30 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-09 14:02 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-09 14:37 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-09 14:57 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-04-29 8:16 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-04-29 8:21 ` btrfs BUG on creating huge sparse file Wu Fengguang
2009-04-29 11:40 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-29 11:45 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-04-29 8:36 ` [PATCH] [13/16] POISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM II Andi Kleen
2009-04-29 9:05 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-04-29 11:27 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [14/16] x86: MCE: Rename mce_notify_user to mce_notify_irq Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [15/16] x86: MCE: Support action-optional machine checks Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 15:10 ` [PATCH] [16/16] POISON: Add madvise() based injector for poisoned data Andi Kleen
2009-04-07 19:13 ` [PATCH] [0/16] POISON: Intro Robin Holt
2009-04-07 19:38 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-08 5:15 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-08 6:15 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-08 17:29 ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-09 7:22 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-08 5:47 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-08 6:21 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-13 13:18 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-26 12:50 ` Hidehiro Kawai
2009-05-26 13:29 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-28 4:37 ` Hidehiro Kawai
2009-05-28 8:00 ` Andi Kleen
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