linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] hwpoison, memory_hotplug: allow hwpoisoned pages to be offlined

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Date:   Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:43:22 +0100
From:   osalvador <osalvador@...e.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...il.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stable tree <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] hwpoison, memory_hotplug: allow hwpoisoned pages to
 be offlined


> Btw. the way how we drop all the work on the first page that we
> cannot
> isolate is just goofy. Why don't we simply migrate all that we
> already
> have on the list and go on? Something for a followup cleanup though.

Indeed, that is just wrong.
I will try to send a followup cleanup to fix that.


> Debugged-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.com>
> Cc: stable
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

It has been a fun bug to chase down, thanks for the patch ;-)

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.com>
Tested-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.com>