Re: [PATCH 3/3] pmem: Use the poison list to expose badblocks

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On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 1:18 AM,  <vishal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Enable the gendisk badblocks feature for pmem namespaces.
> If the pmem namespace being created has any known poison associated with
> its physical address space, convert the poison ranges to bad sectors
> exposed using the badblocks interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 124 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> index 8ee7989..462570f 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
[..]
> @@ -196,6 +311,15 @@ static int pmem_attach_disk(struct device *dev,
>         set_capacity(disk, (pmem->size - pmem->data_offset) / 512);
>         pmem->pmem_disk = disk;
>
> +       ret = disk_alloc_badblocks(disk);
> +       if (ret)
> +               return ret;

I think we should skip allocating a bad block list in the case we find
no poison.  Then we can do a simple "if (disk->bb)" to check if there
are any bad blocks.
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