Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758686AbZDHFTu (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:19:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752918AbZDHFTk (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:19:40 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:52721 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753644AbZDHFTj (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:19:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 22:15:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/16] POISON: Intro Message-Id: <20090407221542.91cd3c42.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090407509.382219156@firstfloor.org> References: <20090407509.382219156@firstfloor.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 734 Lines: 16 On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:09:56 +0200 (CEST) Andi Kleen wrote: > Upcoming Intel CPUs have support for recovering from some memory errors. This > requires the OS to declare a page "poisoned", kill the processes associated > with it and avoid using it in the future. This patchkit implements > the necessary infrastructure in the VM. If the page is clean then we can just toss it and grab a new one from backing store without killing anyone. Does the patchset do that? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/