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Message-ID: <4A31316C.8050007@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:31:40 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
"chris.mason@...cle.com" <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] HWPOISON: report sticky EIO for poisoned file
Wu Fengguang wrote:
> This makes the EIO reports on write(), fsync(), or the NFS close()
> sticky enough. The only way to get rid of it may be
>
> echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> Note that the impacted process will only be killed if it mapped the page.
> XXX
> via read()/write()/fsync() instead of memory mapped reads/writes, simply
> because it's very hard to find them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
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