Re: [PATCH 3/4] memory-hotplug: clear hwpoisoned flag when onlining pages

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At 09/28/2012 04:17 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro Wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:45 AM,  <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> hwpoisoned may set when we offline a page by the sysfs interface
>> /sys/devices/system/memory/soft_offline_page or
>> /sys/devices/system/memory/hard_offline_page. If we don't clear
>> this flag when onlining pages, this page can't be freed, and will
>> not in free list. So we can't offline these pages again. So we
>> should clear this flag when onlining pages.
> 
> This seems wrong fix to me.  After offline, memory may or may not
> change with new one. Thus we can't assume any memory status. Thus,
> we should just forget hwpoison status at _offline_ event.
> 

Yes, agree with you. I will update this patch.

Thanks for reviewing.

Wen Congyang

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