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    block: Add badblock management for gendisks · 99e6608c
    Vishal Verma authored
    
    
    NVDIMM devices, which can behave more like DRAM rather than block
    devices, may develop bad cache lines, or 'poison'. A block device
    exposed by the pmem driver can then consume poison via a read (or
    write), and cause a machine check. On platforms without machine
    check recovery features, this would mean a crash.
    
    The block device maintaining a runtime list of all known sectors that
    have poison can directly avoid this, and also provide a path forward
    to enable proper handling/recovery for DAX faults on such a device.
    
    Use the new badblock management interfaces to add a badblocks list to
    gendisks.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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