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Message-ID: <20091202124730.GB18989@one.firstfloor.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:47:30 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/24] HWPOISON: return 0 if page is assured to be isolated
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:12:45AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Introduce hpc.page_isolated to record if page is assured to be
> isolated, ie. it won't be accessed in normal kernel code paths
> and therefore won't trigger another MCE event.
>
> __memory_failure() will now return 0 to indicate that page is
> really isolated. Note that the original used action result
> RECOVERED is not a reliable criterion.
>
> Note that we now don't bother to risk returning 0 for the
> rare unpoison/truncated cases.
That's the only user of the new hwpoison_control structure right?
I think I prefer for that single bit to extend the return values
and keep the arguments around. structures are not nice to read.
I'll change the code.
-Andi
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