From: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
In preparation for consulting a badblocks list in pmem_direct_access(),
teach dax_pmd_fault() to fallback rather than fail immediately upon
encountering an error. The thought being that reducing the span of the
dax request may avoid the error region.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
---
fs/dax.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 5a34f08..52f0044 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -1111,8 +1111,8 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned
long address,
long length = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax);
if (length < 0) {
- result = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
- goto out;
+ dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "dax-error fallback");
+ goto fallback;
}
if (length < PMD_SIZE) {
dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "dax-length too small");
--
2.5.5
