Re: [PATCH] filemap: Remove PageHWPoison check from next_uptodate_page()

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On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 07:24:42PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 17:44:29 +0000 "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Pages are individually marked as suffering from hardware poisoning.
> > Checking that the head page is not hardware poisoned doesn't make
> > sense; we might be after a subpage.  We check each page individually
> > before we use it, so this was an optimisation gone wrong.
> 
> What were the runtime effects of this bug?

We'd fall back to the slow path when there was no need to do that.




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