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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nhoriguc@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] HWPOISON: improve handling/reporting of memory error on dirty pagecache
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:13:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2628qcpds.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344634913-13681-4-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> (Naoya Horiguchi's message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:41:53 -0400")

Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> writes:

> Current error reporting of memory errors on dirty pagecache has silent
> data lost problem because AS_EIO in struct address_space is cleared
> once checked.

Seems very complicated.  I think I would prefer something simpler
if possible, especially unless it's proven the case is common.
It's hard to maintain rarely used error code when it's complicated.
Maybe try Fengguang's simple proposal first? That would fix other IO
errors too.

-Andi

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-10 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-10 21:41 [PATCH 0/3 v1] HWPOISON: improve dirty pagecache error handling Naoya Horiguchi
2012-08-10 21:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] HWPOISON: fix action_result() to print out dirty/clean Naoya Horiguchi
2012-08-10 23:08   ` Andi Kleen
2012-08-10 21:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] HWPOISON: undo memory error handling for dirty pagecache Naoya Horiguchi
2012-08-10 23:09   ` Andi Kleen
2012-08-11  0:58     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2012-08-13 10:10     ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2012-08-10 21:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] HWPOISON: improve handling/reporting of memory error on " Naoya Horiguchi
2012-08-10 22:01   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2012-08-10 23:13   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-08-11  1:01     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2012-08-11 11:15   ` Andi Kleen
2012-08-11 21:14     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2012-08-12  3:28       ` Andi Kleen
2012-08-12 15:19         ` Naoya Horiguchi
2012-08-11 22:41   ` Luck, Tony
2012-08-12 15:57     ` Naoya Horiguchi

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