Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] mm/hwpoison: fix traverse hugetlbfs page to avoid printk flood

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On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:50:06PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> This is good - but the real solution is to stop poisoning entire huge pages ... they should
> be broken into 4K pages and just one 4K page should be poisoned.
> 
> Naoya Horiguchi: I thought that you were looking at this problem some months ago. Any progress?

Sorry, I have no meaningful progress on this. Splitting hugepages is not
a trivial operation, and introduce more complexity on hugetlbfs code.
I don't hit on any usecase of it rather than memory failure, so I'm not
sure that it's worth doing now.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi

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