linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/15] HWPOISON: soft offline rework

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:17:42 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     nao.horiguchi@...il.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, mhocko@...nel.org, mike.kravetz@...cle.com,
        osalvador@...e.de, tony.luck@...el.com, david@...hat.com,
        aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, zeil@...dex-team.ru,
        naoya.horiguchi@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/15] HWPOISON: soft offline rework

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:01:22 +0000 nao.horiguchi@...il.com wrote:

> I rebased soft-offline rework patchset [1][2] onto the latest mmotm.  The
> rebasing required some non-trivial changes to adjust, but mainly that was
> straightforward.  I confirmed that the reported problem doesn't reproduce on
> compaction after soft offline.  For more precise description of the problem
> and the motivation of this patchset, please see [2].
> 
> I think that the following two patches in v2 are better to be done with
> separate work of hard-offline rework, so it's not included in this series.
> 
>   - mm,hwpoison: Take pages off the buddy when hard-offlining
>   - mm/hwpoison-inject: Rip off duplicated checks
> 
> These two are not directly related to the reported problem, so they seems
> not urgent.  And the first one breaks num_poisoned_pages counting in some
> testcases, and The second patch needs more consideration about commented point.
> 

It would be nice to have some sort of overview of the patch series in
this [0/n] email.

> [1] v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1541746035-13408-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com/
> [2] v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20191017142123.24245-1-osalvador@suse.de/

The above have such, but are they up to date?