linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2/8] shmem: convert to use folio_test

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Message-ID: <ZENO4vZzmN8lJocK@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2023 20:05:06 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 2/8] shmem: convert to use folio_test_hwpoison()

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 11:42:53PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 02:43:54PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > The PageHWPoison() call can be converted over to the respective folio call
> > folio_test_hwpoison(). This introduces no functional changes.
> 
> Um, no.  Nobody should use folio_test_hwpoison(), it's a nonsense.
> 
> Individual pages are hwpoisoned.  You're only testing the head page
> if you use folio_test_hwpoison().  There's folio_has_hwpoisoned() to
> test if _any_ page in the folio is poisoned.  But blindly converting
> PageHWPoison to folio_test_hwpoison() is wrong.

Thanks! I don't see folio_has_hwpoisoned() though.

  Luis