Re: [RFC] Expose a memory poison detector ioctl to user space.

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On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:18 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/26/22 11:02, Jue Wang wrote:
> >>> Are there any other physical addresses which are RAM but should not have
> >>> the detector used on them?
> > In theory, if some physical address range are never / very rarely
> > accessed, they can be exempted.
>
> How would userspace know to exempt them?

User space won't know, if kernel has this knowledge, I suppose an
appropriate error code can be returned to inform user space this
address region should be exempted from future scanning?
>




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