diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index f49eecf2e5735..623f094c9d8d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/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 =============== diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index b21cf6b9c80b2..4f47afd37647b 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/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 *); }; /* diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index b05bbde0296d9..a16018f7d61c1 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/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); diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c index ea132f7ea2d29..a17b3977cfdf8 100644 --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/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.