> HWPoison delays any action on buddy allocator pages, handling can be safely postponed > until a later time when the page might be referenced. By delaying, some transient errors > may not reoccur or may be irrelevant. That's not true for soft offlining, only for hard. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>