linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Avoid putting a bad page back on the LRU

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Date:	Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:46:41 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
Cc:	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Avoid putting a bad page back on the LRU

Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de> writes:
>
> Clearing the flag doesn't change the fact, that this page is representing 
> permanently bad RAM.

Yes, you cannot ever clear a Poison flag, at least not without a special
hardware mechanism that clears the hardware poison too (but that has
other issues in Linux too). Otherwise you would die later.

> What about removing it from the LRU and adding it to a bad RAM list in every case?

That is what memory_failure() already should be doing. Except there's no list
currently.

> After hot swapping the physical RAM banks it could be moved back, not before.

Linux doesn't really support that. That is at least not when it's OS visible.

-Andi
-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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