HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters
authorHaicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:19:59 +0000 (12:19 +0100)
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:19:59 +0000 (12:19 +0100)
commit1bfe5febe34d2be2120803c10720e179186357c9
treed4d8b1dacc375a1004ab1ed508333bc33e46d9a9
parent4fd466eb46a6a917c317a87fb94bfc7252a0f7ed
HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters

In some use cases, user doesn't need extra filtering. E.g. user program
can inject errors through madvise syscall to its own pages, however it
might not know what the page state exactly is or which inode the page
belongs to.

So introduce an one-off interface "corrupt-filter-enable".

Echo 0 to switch off page filters, and echo 1 to switch on the filters.
[AK: changed default to 0]

Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
mm/hwpoison-inject.c
mm/internal.h
mm/memory-failure.c