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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: aelder@sgi.com, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs: outstanding patches for 2.6.39
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:05:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110323160515.GF21838@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110323113803.GB26611@dastard>

> We can't do that right now, anyway.

It seemed to work on XFS when we tested it. Undoutedly after your
patch it won't work anymore.

> If the page is not in use, we don't care about it after this patch
> set is applied - the page is either active in a buffer or it has been
> freed. If it is in use, then we'll shut the filesystem down if we
> detect the memory corruption just like we currently do. Hence I
> don't see any regression here.

I think you're confusing the memory_failure() HWPoison path with some XFS
internal checking. I don't think XFS has any HWPoison checking on its own.

> As it is, there is no way for the filesytem to be notified about
> such failures on active pages in buffers, so in reality we can't
> reliably detect them so there is little point in trying to recover
> from such errors.

Well it works today if the page is in pagecache. memory-failure will
just remove it transparently.

In principle you can check for HWPoison manually yourself, but I'm not sure
that is a good way to do it.


-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-23 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-23  6:14 xfs: outstanding patches for 2.6.39 Dave Chinner
2011-03-23  6:14 ` [PATCH 1/6] xfs: preallocation transactions do not need to be synchronous Dave Chinner
2011-03-24 17:18   ` brian.foster
2011-03-24 22:53     ` [PATCH V2] " Dave Chinner
2011-03-25 21:00   ` [PATCH 1/6] " Alex Elder
2011-03-25 22:02     ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-23  6:14 ` [PATCH 2/6] vmap: flush vmap aliases when mapping fails Dave Chinner
2011-03-25 21:00   ` Alex Elder
2011-03-23  6:14 ` [PATCH 3/6] xfs: introduce inode cluster buffer trylocks for xfs_iflush Dave Chinner
2011-03-25 21:00   ` Alex Elder
2011-03-23  6:14 ` [PATCH 4/6] xfs: xfs_trans_read_buf() should return an error on failure Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 11:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-25 21:01   ` Alex Elder
2011-03-23  6:14 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfs: register the inode cache shrinker before quotachecks Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 21:24   ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2011-03-25 12:56     ` Michael Weissenbacher
2011-03-25 23:08       ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-25 21:01   ` Alex Elder
2011-03-23  6:14 ` [PATCH 6/6] xfs: stop using the page cache to back the buffer cache Dave Chinner
2011-03-25 21:02   ` Alex Elder
2011-03-25 22:04     ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-23  7:01 ` xfs: outstanding patches for 2.6.39 Andi Kleen
2011-03-23 11:38   ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 16:05     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-03-23 22:48       ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 11:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-23 11:38   ` Dave Chinner

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