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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"ltp@lists.linux.it" <ltp@lists.linux.it>
Subject: Re: [LTP] Is MADV_HWPOISON supposed to work only on faulted-in pages?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:26:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170328202652.GC8285@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170328082506.GA30388@rei>

> Well I disagree, the reason why the test fails is that MADV_HWPOISON on
> not-faulted private mappings fails silently, which is a bug, albeit
> minor one. If something is not implemented, it should report a failure,
> the usual error return would be EINVAL in this case.
> 
> It appears that it fails with EBUSY on first try on newer kernels, but
> still fails silently when we try for a second time.
> 
> Why can't we simply check if the page is faulted or not and return error
> in the latter case?

It's a debug interface. You're supposed to know what you're doing.

-Andi

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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] Is MADV_HWPOISON supposed to work only on faulted-in pages?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:26:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170328202652.GC8285@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170328082506.GA30388@rei>

> Well I disagree, the reason why the test fails is that MADV_HWPOISON on
> not-faulted private mappings fails silently, which is a bug, albeit
> minor one. If something is not implemented, it should report a failure,
> the usual error return would be EINVAL in this case.
> 
> It appears that it fails with EBUSY on first try on newer kernels, but
> still fails silently when we try for a second time.
> 
> Why can't we simply check if the page is faulted or not and return error
> in the latter case?

It's a debug interface. You're supposed to know what you're doing.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-28 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-14 15:41 Is MADV_HWPOISON supposed to work only on faulted-in pages? Jan Stancek
2017-02-14 15:41 ` [LTP] " Jan Stancek
2017-02-20  5:00 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-20  5:00   ` [LTP] " Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-23  3:23   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-23  3:23     ` [LTP] " Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-25  2:28     ` Yisheng Xie
2017-02-25  2:28       ` [LTP] " Yisheng Xie
2017-02-27  1:20       ` Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-27  1:20         ` [LTP] " Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-27  4:27         ` Zi Yan
2017-02-27  4:27           ` [LTP] " Zi Yan
2017-02-27  6:33           ` Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-27  6:33             ` [LTP] " Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-27 16:10             ` Zi Yan
2017-02-27 16:10               ` [LTP] " Zi Yan
2017-03-14 13:20             ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-03-14 13:20               ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-03-27 12:08             ` Richard Palethorpe
2017-03-27 12:08               ` Richard Palethorpe
2017-03-27 23:54     ` Andi Kleen
2017-03-27 23:54       ` [LTP] " Andi Kleen
2017-03-28  8:25       ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-03-28  8:25         ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-03-28 20:26         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2017-03-28 20:26           ` Andi Kleen

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