Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] mm: Teach memory_failure() about ZONE_DEVICE pages

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On Mon 11-06-18 07:44:39, Dan Williams wrote:
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> I'm still trying to understand the next level of detail on where you
> think the design should go next? Is it just the HWPoison page flag?
> Are you concerned about supporting greater than PAGE_SIZE poison?

I simply do not want to check for HWPoison at zillion of places and have
each type of page to have some special handling which can get wrong very
easily. I am not clear on details here, this is something for users of
hwpoison to define what is the reasonable scenarios when the feature is
useful and turn that into a feature list that can be actually turned
into a design document. See the different from let's put some more on
top approach...

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs



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