linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] HWPOISON: report sticky EIO for poisoned file

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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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