linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 0/2] Exclude hwpoison page from vmcore dump

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Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:37:50 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Mitsuhiro Tanino <mitsuhiro.tanino.gm@...achi.com>
Cc:	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/2] Exclude hwpoison page from vmcore dump

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:06:43PM +0900, Mitsuhiro Tanino wrote:

[..]
> These patches introduce a new "-p" option into "makedumpfile" to
> exclude hwpoison page from vmcore.

Why to introduce this option "-p"? Until and unless there are serious
side effects, this should be default functionality. Isn't it? Who would
like to touch/save poisoned pages and run into MCE?

Thanks
Vivek
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