Re: [PATCH] [9/16] HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages intry_to_unmap

[Wu Fengguang]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 02:46:42AM +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> When a page has the poison bit set replace the PTE with a poison entry. 
> This causes the right error handling to be done later when a process runs 
> into it.
> 
> Also add a new flag to not do that (needed for the memory-failure handler
> later)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  include/linux/rmap.h |    1 +
>  mm/rmap.c            |    9 ++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux/mm/rmap.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/mm/rmap.c	2009-06-03 19:36:23.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux/mm/rmap.c	2009-06-03 20:39:49.000000000 +0200
> @@ -943,7 +943,14 @@
>  	/* Update high watermark before we lower rss */
>  	update_hiwater_rss(mm);
>  
> -	if (PageAnon(page)) {
> +	if (PageHWPoison(page) && !(flags & TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON)) {
> +		if (PageAnon(page))
> +			dec_mm_counter(mm, anon_rss);
> +		else if (!is_migration_entry(pte_to_swp_entry(*pte)))
> +			dec_mm_counter(mm, file_rss);
> +		set_pte_at(mm, address, pte,
> +				swp_entry_to_pte(make_hwpoison_entry(page)));
> +	} else if (PageAnon(page)) {
>  		swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page) };
>  
>  		if (PageSwapCache(page)) {
> Index: linux/include/linux/rmap.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/rmap.h	2009-06-03 19:36:23.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux/include/linux/rmap.h	2009-06-03 19:36:23.000000000 +0200
> @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
>  
>  	TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK = (1 << 8),	/* ignore mlock */
>  	TTU_IGNORE_ACCESS = (1 << 9),	/* don't age */
> +	TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON = (1 << 10),/* corrupted page is recoverable */

Or more precisely comment it as "corrupted data is recoverable"?
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