Re: [PATCH v2] dax: enable dax fault handler to report VM_FAULT_HWPOISON

[Jane Chu]

On 4/27/2023 4:48 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 04:36:58PM -0700, Jane Chu wrote:
> > > This change results in EHWPOISON leaking to usersapce in the case of
> > > read(2), that's not a return code that block I/O applications have ever
> > > had to contend with before. Just as badblocks cause EIO to be returned,
> > > so should poisoned cachelines for pmem.
> >
> > The read(2) man page (https://man.archlinux.org/man/read.2) says
> > "On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error. In this
> > case, it is left unspecified whether the file position (if any) changes."
> >
> > If read(2) users haven't dealt with EHWPOISON before, they may discover that
> > with pmem backed dax file, it's possible.
>
> I don't think they should.  While syscalls are allowed to return errnos
> other than the ones listed in POSIX, I don't think this is a worthwhile
> difference.  We should be abstracting from the user that this is pmem
> rather than spinning rust or nand.  So we should convert the EHWPOISON
> to EIO as Dan suggests.

Got it, I'll add errno conversion in the respin.

thanks,
-jane