linux-kernel - Re: [v3 PATCH 2/5] mm: filemap: check if THP has hwpoisoned subpage for PMD page fault

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Date:   Wed, 6 Oct 2021 16:18:48 -0400
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
Cc:     naoya.horiguchi@....com, hughd@...gle.com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, willy@...radead.org,
        osalvador@...e.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 2/5] mm: filemap: check if THP has hwpoisoned subpage
 for PMD page fault

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 02:53:08PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
> +	/* Compound pages. Stored in first tail page's flags */
> +	PG_has_hwpoisoned = PG_mappedtodisk,
> +#endif

Sorry one more comment I missed: would PG_hwpoisoned_subpage better?  It's just
that "has_hwpoison" can be directly read as "this page has been hwpoisoned",
which sounds too close to PG_hwpoisoned.  No strong opinion either.  Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu