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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt7
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/truncate.c17
4 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index f49eecf..623f094 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -536,6 +536,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
/* migrate the contents of a page to the specified target */
int (*migratepage) (struct page *, struct page *);
int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
+ int (*error_remove_page) (struct mapping *mapping, struct page *page);
};
writepage: called by the VM to write a dirty page to backing store.
@@ -694,6 +695,12 @@ struct address_space_operations {
prevent redirtying the page, it is kept locked during the whole
operation.
+ error_remove_page: normally set to generic_error_remove_page if truncation
+ is ok for this address space. Used for memory failure handling.
+ Setting this implies you deal with pages going away under you,
+ unless you have them locked or reference counts increased.
+
+
The File Object
===============
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b21cf6b..4f47afd 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -595,6 +595,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *,
unsigned long);
+ int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *);
};
/*
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index b05bbde..a16018f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -795,6 +795,7 @@ extern int vmtruncate(struct inode * inode, loff_t offset);
extern int vmtruncate_range(struct inode * inode, loff_t offset, loff_t end);
int truncate_inode_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);
+int generic_error_remove_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);
int invalidate_inode_page(struct page *page);
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index ea132f7..a17b397 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -147,6 +147,23 @@ int truncate_inode_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
}
/*
+ * Used to get rid of pages on hardware memory corruption.
+ */
+int generic_error_remove_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
+{
+ if (!mapping)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ /*
+ * Only punch for normal data pages for now.
+ * Handling other types like directories would need more auditing.
+ */
+ if (!S_ISREG(mapping->host->i_mode))
+ return -EIO;
+ return truncate_inode_page(mapping, page);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_error_remove_page);
+
+/*
* Safely invalidate one page from its pagecache mapping.
* It only drops clean, unused pages. The page must be locked.
*
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