On 15.02.22 16:01, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 2022-02-15 at 12:22 +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> On 13.02.22 03:37, Rik van Riel wrote: >>> Sometimes the page offlining code can leave behind a hwpoisoned >>> clean >>> page cache page. This can lead to programs being killed over and >>> over >>> and over again as they fault in the hwpoisoned page, get killed, >>> and >>> then get re-spawned by whatever wanted to run them. >> >> Hi Rik, >> >> am I correct that you are only talking about soft offlining as >> triggered >> from mm/memory-failure.c, not page offlining as in memory offlining >> mm/memory_hotunplug.c ? > > That is correct in that I am talking only about memory-failure.c, > however the code in memory-failure.c has both hard and soft > offlining modes, and I suppose this patch covers both? > Right, for hwpoison handling there is hard and soft offlining of pages ... maybe "hwpoison page offlining" would be clearer, not sure. Thanks for clarifying! -- Thanks, David / dhildenb
