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Date:   Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:20:55 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Shiyang Ruan <ruansy.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] pagemap: Introduce ->memory_failure()
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 06:55:20PM +0800, Shiyang Ruan wrote:
> When memory-failure occurs, we call this function which is implemented
> by each kind of devices.  For the fsdax case, pmem device driver
> implements it.  Pmem device driver will find out the block device where
> the error page locates in, and try to get the filesystem on this block
> device.  And finally call filesystem handler to deal with the error.
> The filesystem will try to recover the corrupted data if possiable.

I'm not sure adding just a method without any of the support code
is a useful patch on its own.