Mitsuhiro Tanino <mitsuhiro.tanino.gm at hitachi.com> writes: > Hi Vivek, > > (2012/10/31 23:14), Vivek Goyal wrote: >> If hwpoision functionality is not available in hardware, then respective >> bit will not be even set in struct page and it will be saved by default. >> So it should not matter whether hardware has hwpoision functionality >> or not. > > Thanks, I understand. > >> I think that removing hwpoisno pages by default makes sense. If somebody >> does have a reasonable case of not doing so, then we could either >> introduce anther filtering level (based on type) or add another command >> line option like (--no-hwposion-filtering) etc. > > I agree with you. > If somebody requests to support for disabling the filter of hwpoison pages, > this option will be discussed. I agree. If we are performing filtering filtering out of poisoned pages seems very reasonable. So ack on the basic concept. Eric
