HWPOISON: add fs/device filters

Filesystem data/metadata present the most tricky-to-isolate pages.
It requires careful code review and stress testing to get them right.

The fs/device filter helps to target the stress tests to some specific
filesystem pages. The filter condition is block device's major/minor
numbers:
        - corrupt-filter-dev-major
        - corrupt-filter-dev-minor
When specified (non -1), only page cache pages that belong to that
device will be poisoned.

The filters are checked reliably on the locked and refcounted page.

Haicheng: clear PG_hwpoison and drop bad page count if filter not OK
AK: Add documentation

CC: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com>
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
index f047e75acb2..fdf58046432 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
@@ -115,6 +115,13 @@ memory failures.
 Note these injection interfaces are not stable and might change between
 kernel versions
 
+corrupt-filter-dev-major
+corrupt-filter-dev-minor
+
+Only handle memory failures to pages associated with the file system defined
+by block device major/minor.  -1U is the wildcard value.
+This should be only used for testing with artificial injection.
+
 Architecture specific MCE injector
 
 x86 has mce-inject, mce-test