Commit 57f7f317 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams
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pmem, dax: disable dax in the presence of bad blocks 



Longer term teach dax to punch "error" holes in mapping requests and
deliver SIGBUS to applications that consume a bad pmem page.  For now,
simply disable the dax performance optimization in the presence of known
errors.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
parent e10624f8

block/ioctl.c

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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ 
#include <linux/gfp.h>

#include <linux/blkpg.h>

#include <linux/hdreg.h>

#include <linux/badblocks.h>

#include <linux/backing-dev.h>

#include <linux/fs.h>

#include <linux/blktrace_api.h>
@@ -422,6 +423,15 @@ bool blkdev_dax_capable(struct block_device *bdev) 
			|| (bdev->bd_part->nr_sects % (PAGE_SIZE / 512)))

		return false;



	/*

	 * If the device has known bad blocks, force all I/O through the

	 * driver / page cache.

	 *

	 * TODO: support finer grained dax error handling

	 */

	if (disk->bb && disk->bb->count)

		return false;



	return true;

}

drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c

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@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ static int pmem_attach_disk(struct device *dev, 
		return -ENOMEM;

	nvdimm_namespace_add_poison(ndns, &pmem->bb, pmem->data_offset);



	disk->bb = &pmem->bb;

	add_disk(disk);

	revalidate_disk(disk);