linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] HWPOISON: improve dirty pagecache error reporting

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Message-ID: <m2obm27k37.fsf@firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:22:36 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@...el.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	"Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] HWPOISON: improve dirty pagecache error reporting

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

> Hi,
>
> Based on the previous discussion, in this version I propose only error
> reporting fix ("overwrite recovery" is sparated out from this series.)
>
> I think Fengguang's patch (patch 2 in this series) has a corner case
> about inode cache drop, so I added patch 3 for it.

New patchkit looks very reasonable to me.

I haven't gone through all the corner cases the inode pinning may
have though. You probably want an review from Al Viro on this.

-Andi

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