Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Here's a somewhat experimental patch to improve soft offlining > in hwpoison, but allowing hwpoison on free for not directly > freeable page types. It should work for nearly all > left over page types that get eventually freed, so this makes > soft offlining nearly universal. The only non handleable page > types are now pages that never get freed. > > Drawback: It needs an additional page flag. Cannot set hwpoison > directly because that would not be "soft" and cause errors. > > Since the flags are scarce on 32bit I only enabled it on 64bit. > > Comments? I got a couple of positive comments and reviews and no negative comments. So I assume noone has a problem with using up a 64bit page flag for this. I plan to push this into linux-next after some delay and then prepare it for merge later. If there are any objections please speak up now. Thanks, -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>