From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48AAF6B004F for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 05:27:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:59:20 +0200 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH] [10/16] HWPOISON: Handle poisoned pages in set_page_dirty() Message-ID: <20090609095920.GD14820@wotan.suse.de> References: <20090603846.816684333@firstfloor.org> <20090603184644.190E71D0281@basil.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090603184644.190E71D0281@basil.firstfloor.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com List-ID: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:46:43PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Bail out early in set_page_dirty for poisoned pages. We don't want any > of the dirty accounting done or file system write back started, because > the page will be just thrown away. I don't agree with adding overhead to fastpaths like this. Your MCE handler should have already taken care of this so I can't see what it can gain. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen > > --- > mm/page-writeback.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > Index: linux/mm/page-writeback.c > =================================================================== > --- linux.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2009-06-03 19:36:20.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux/mm/page-writeback.c 2009-06-03 19:36:23.000000000 +0200 > @@ -1304,6 +1304,10 @@ > { > struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page); > > + if (unlikely(PageHWPoison(page))) { > + SetPageDirty(page); > + return 0; > + } > if (likely(mapping)) { > int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty; > #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org