linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/24] HWPOISON: make it possible to unpoison pages

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Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:45:18 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/24] HWPOISON: make it possible to unpoison pages

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 10:03:05PM +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > btw, do you feel comfortable with the interface name "renew-pfn"?
> > (versus "unpoison-pfn")
> 
> I prefer unpoison, that makes it clear what it is.

OK.

> Maybe even call it "software_unpoison_pfn", because it won't unpoison on the 
> hardware level (this really should be documented somewhere too)

Yes we can document it in Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt.

Does that mean we may introduce a "hardware_unpoison_pfn" in future?
(a superset of software_unpoison_pfn)

And "software_unpoison_pfn" may make the other "corrupt-pfn" a bit
confusing ;)


Thanks,
Fengguang
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