HWPOISON: add fs/device filters
authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@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)
commit7c116f2b0dbac4a1dd051c7a5e8cef37701cafd4
treeac7f1e56551df46bc79e400a182a57f4eae5ddaf
parent138ce286eb6ee6d39ca4fb50516e93adaf6b605f
HWPOISON: add fs/device filters

Filesystem data/metadata present the most tricky-to-isolate pages.
It requires careful code review and stress testing to get them right.

The fs/device filter helps to target the stress tests to some specific
filesystem pages. The filter condition is block device's major/minor
numbers:
        - corrupt-filter-dev-major
        - corrupt-filter-dev-minor
When specified (non -1), only page cache pages that belong to that
device will be poisoned.

The filters are checked reliably on the locked and refcounted page.

Haicheng: clear PG_hwpoison and drop bad page count if filter not OK
AK: Add documentation

CC: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com>
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
mm/hwpoison-inject.c
mm/internal.h
mm/memory-failure.c