From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> In preparation for consulting a badblocks list in pmem_direct_access(), teach dax_pmd_fault() to fallback rather than fail immediately upon encountering an error. The thought being that reducing the span of the dax request may avoid the error region. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dax.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c index 90322eb..ec6417b 100644 --- a/fs/dax.c +++ b/fs/dax.c @@ -945,8 +945,8 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, long length = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax); if (length < 0) { - result = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; - goto out; + dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "dax-error fallback"); + goto fallback; } if (length < PMD_SIZE) { dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "dax-length too small"); -- 2.5.5 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs