dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error

In preparation for consulting a badblocks list in pmem_direct_access(),
teach dax_pmd_fault() to fallback rather than fail immediately upon
encountering an error.  The thought being that reducing the span of the
dax request may avoid the error region.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <[email protected]>
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Dan Williams 2016-02-24 14:02:06 -08:00 • committed by Vishal Verma
commit 8b3db9798c

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@ -855,8 +855,8 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
long length = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax);
if (length < 0) {
result = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
goto out;
dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "dax-error fallback");
goto fallback;
}
if (length < PMD_SIZE) {
dax_pmd_dbg(&bh, address, "dax-length too small");