Re: [PATCH 4/5] HWPOISON: report sticky EIO for poisoned file

[Rik van Riel]

Wu Fengguang wrote:
> This makes the EIO reports on write(), fsync(), or the NFS close()
> sticky enough. The only way to get rid of it may be
>
> 	echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> Note that the impacted process will only be killed if it mapped the page.
> XXX
> via read()/write()/fsync() instead of memory mapped reads/writes, simply
> because it's very hard to find them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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