linux-kernel - Re: Page migration issue with UBIFS

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2016 08:28:45 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	David Gstir <david@...ma-star.at>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Alexander Kaplan <alex@...tthing.co>
Subject: Re: Page migration issue with UBIFS

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:21:56PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > FYI, with a dummy ->migratepage() which returns only -EINVAL UBIFS does no
> > longer explode upon page migration.
> > Tomorrow I'll do more tests to make sure.
> 
> Could you check if something like this would fix the issue.
> Completely untested.

We really need to make the default safe for file systems that don't
have a migratepage method.