linux-kernel - Re: + documentation-proctxt-adding-hardwarecorrupted-field-and-description.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <20180720100510.GA6044@avx2>
Date:   Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:05:10 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     corbet@....net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com, pdhamdhe@...hat.com
Subject: Re: +
 documentation-proctxt-adding-hardwarecorrupted-field-and-description.patch
 added to -mm tree

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 05:01:08PM -0700, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> +HardwareCorrupted: The amount of RAM/memory in KB, the kernel identifies as
> +	      corrupted.

This is quite vague as the line doesn't say which criteria kernel uses
to identify memory as corrupted.