[PATCH 2/3] dax: introduce dax_clear_poison to dax pwrite operation

From: Jane Chu
Date: Tue Sep 14 2021 - 19:33:10 EST


When pwrite(2) encounters poison in a dax range, it fails with EIO.
But if the backend hardware of the dax device is capable of clearing
poison, try that and resume the write.

Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/dax.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 99b4e78d888f..592a156abbf2 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -1156,8 +1156,17 @@ dax_iomap_actor(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t length, void *data,
if (ret)
break;

+ /*
+ * If WRITE operation encounters media error in a page aligned
+ * range, try to clear the error, then resume, for just once.
+ */
map_len = dax_direct_access(dax_dev, pgoff, PHYS_PFN(size),
&kaddr, NULL);
+ if ((map_len == -EIO) && (iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE)) {
+ if (dax_clear_poison(dax_dev, pgoff, PHYS_PFN(size)) == 0)
+ map_len = dax_direct_access(dax_dev, pgoff,
+ PHYS_PFN(size), &kaddr, NULL);
+ }
if (map_len < 0) {
ret = map_len;
break;
--
2.18.4