On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 07:19:28PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > So I think the path forward is: > > - teach memory_failure() to allow for ranged failures > > - let interested drivers register for memory failure events via a > blocking_notifier_head Eww. As I said I think the right way is that the file system (or other consumer) can register a set of callbacks for opening the device. I have a series I need to finish and send out to do that for block devices. We probably also need the concept of a holder for the dax device to make it work nicely, as otherwise we're going to have a bit of a mess. > This obviously does not solve Dave's desire to get this type of error > reporting on block_devices, but I think there's nothing stopping a > parallel notifier chain from being created for block-devices, but > that's orthogonal to requirements and capabilities provided by > dax-devices. FYI, my series could easily accomodate that if we ever get a block driver that actually could report such errors.
