Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161295AbXAHNtM (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:49:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161300AbXAHNtM (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:49:12 -0500 Received: from 3a.49.1343.static.theplanet.com ([67.19.73.58]:53452 "EHLO pug.o-hand.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161295AbXAHNtL (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:49:11 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Improve swap page error handling From: Richard Purdie To: Nick Piggin , Hugh Dickins , kernel list Cc: Andrew Morton Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:48:43 +0000 Message-Id: <1168264124.5605.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 17 Improve the error handling when writes fail to a swap page. Currently, the kernel will repeatedly retry the write which is unlikely to ever succeed. Instead we allow the pages to be unused and then marked as bad at which prevents reuse. It should hopefully be suitable for testing in -mm. These patches are a based on a patch by Nick Piggin and some of my own patches/bugfixes as discussed on LKML. Richard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/