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yaml
---
r: 165734
b: refs/heads/master
c: 2571873
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 83f786680aec8d030184f7ced1a0a3dd8ac81764
+refs/heads/master: 257187362123f15d9d1e09918cf87cebbea4e786

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt

@@ -536,6 +536,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
 	/* migrate the contents of a page to the specified target */
 	int (*migratepage) (struct page *, struct page *);
 	int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
+	int (*error_remove_page) (struct mapping *mapping, struct page *page);
 };
 
   writepage: called by the VM to write a dirty page to backing store.
@@ -694,6 +695,12 @@ struct address_space_operations {
   	prevent redirtying the page, it is kept locked during the whole
 	operation.
 
+  error_remove_page: normally set to generic_error_remove_page if truncation
+	is ok for this address space. Used for memory failure handling.
+	Setting this implies you deal with pages going away under you,
+	unless you have them locked or reference counts increased.
+
+
 The File Object
 ===============
 

trunk/include/linux/fs.h

@@ -595,6 +595,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
 	int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
 	int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *,
 					unsigned long);
+	int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *);
 };
 
 /*

trunk/include/linux/mm.h

@@ -795,6 +795,7 @@ extern int vmtruncate(struct inode * inode, loff_t offset);
 extern int vmtruncate_range(struct inode * inode, loff_t offset, loff_t end);
 
 int truncate_inode_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);
+int generic_error_remove_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);
 
 int invalidate_inode_page(struct page *page);
 

trunk/mm/truncate.c

@@ -146,6 +146,23 @@ int truncate_inode_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
 	return truncate_complete_page(mapping, page);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Used to get rid of pages on hardware memory corruption.
+ */
+int generic_error_remove_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
+{
+	if (!mapping)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	/*
+	 * Only punch for normal data pages for now.
+	 * Handling other types like directories would need more auditing.
+	 */
+	if (!S_ISREG(mapping->host->i_mode))
+		return -EIO;
+	return truncate_inode_page(mapping, page);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_error_remove_page);
+
 /*
  * Safely invalidate one page from its pagecache mapping.
  * It only drops clean, unused pages. The page must be locked.