From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4B256B0085 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:12:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:12:20 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang Subject: Re: [PATCH] [11/19] HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2 Message-ID: <20090805151220.GB6210@localhost> References: <200908051136.682859934@firstfloor.org> <20090805093638.D3754B15D8@basil.firstfloor.org> <20090805102008.GB17190@wotan.suse.de> <20090805134607.GH11385@basil.fritz.box> <20090805140145.GB28563@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090805140145.GB28563@wotan.suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andi Kleen , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com" List-ID: On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:01:45PM +0800, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:46:08PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:20:08PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page) > > > > { > > > > if (page->mapping != mapping) > > > > - return; > > > > + return -EIO; > > > > > > Hmm, at this point, the page must have been removed from pagecache, > > > so I don't know if you need to pass an error back? > > > > It could be reused, which would be bad for us? > > I haven't brought up the caller at this point, but IIRC you had > the page locked and mapping confirmed at this point anyway so > it would never be an error for your code. Right, that 'if' will always evaluate to false for the hwpoison case. Because that 'mapping' was taken from 'page->mapping' inside page lock and they will just remain the same values. > Probably it would be nice to just force callers to verify the page. > Normally IMO it is much nicer and clearer to do it at the time the > page gets locked, unless there is good reason otherwise. Yes we do checked page->mapping after taking page lock. -- 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