| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-ID: <874ocnc01m.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:50:13 +0200 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: linux-mm@...ck.org Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fengguang.wu@...el.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: RFC: Implement hwpoison on free for soft offlining Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> writes: > Here's a somewhat experimental patch to improve soft offlining > in hwpoison, but allowing hwpoison on free for not directly > freeable page types. It should work for nearly all > left over page types that get eventually freed, so this makes > soft offlining nearly universal. The only non handleable page > types are now pages that never get freed. > > Drawback: It needs an additional page flag. Cannot set hwpoison > directly because that would not be "soft" and cause errors. > > Since the flags are scarce on 32bit I only enabled it on 64bit. > > Comments? I got a couple of positive comments and reviews and no negative comments. So I assume noone has a problem with using up a 64bit page flag for this. I plan to push this into linux-next after some delay and then prepare it for merge later. If there are any objections please speak up now. Thanks, -Andi -- ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists