Nobody checks the error flag any more, so setting it accomplishes
nothing. Remove the obsolete parts of this comment; it hasn't
been true since errseq_t was used to track writeback errors in 2017.
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 29 -----------------------------
1 file changed, 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index ec30611ec5ad..e065dd9be21e 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1092,7 +1092,6 @@ static int me_pagecache_dirty(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(p);
- SetPageError(p);
/* TBD: print more information about the file. */
if (mapping) {
/*
@@ -1100,34 +1099,6 @@ static int me_pagecache_dirty(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
* who check the mapping.
* This way the application knows that something went
* wrong with its dirty file data.
- *
- * There's one open issue:
- *
- * The EIO will be only reported on the next IO
- * operation and then cleared through the IO map.
- * Normally Linux has two mechanisms to pass IO error
- * first through the AS_EIO flag in the address space
- * and then through the PageError flag in the page.
- * Since we drop pages on memory failure handling the
- * only mechanism open to use is through AS_AIO.
- *
- * This has the disadvantage that it gets cleared on
- * the first operation that returns an error, while
- * the PageError bit is more sticky and only cleared
- * when the page is reread or dropped. If an
- * application assumes it will always get error on
- * fsync, but does other operations on the fd before
- * and the page is dropped between then the error
- * will not be properly reported.
- *
- * This can already happen even without hwpoisoned
- * pages: first on metadata IO errors (which only
- * report through AS_EIO) or when the page is dropped
- * at the wrong time.
- *
- * So right now we assume that the application DTRT on
- * the first EIO, but we're not worse than other parts
- * of the kernel.
*/
mapping_set_error(mapping, -EIO);
}
--
2.43.0
