linux-kernel - [PATCH] [10/16] HWPOISON: Handle poisoned pages in set_page

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Message-Id: <20090603184644.190E71D0281@basil.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed,  3 Jun 2009 20:46:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, npiggin@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	fengguang.wu@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH] [10/16] HWPOISON: Handle poisoned pages in set_page_dirty()


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.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

---
 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
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