Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752431AbZIZTOw (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:14:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751728AbZIZTOv (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:14:51 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58861 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751363AbZIZTOv (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:14:51 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:14:54 +0200 From: Nick Piggin To: Wu Fengguang Cc: Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] HWPOISON: remove the unsafe __set_page_locked() Message-ID: <20090926191454.GD14368@wotan.suse.de> References: <20090926031537.GA10176@localhost> <20090926114806.GA12419@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090926114806.GA12419@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 17 On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 07:48:06PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 07:09:21PM +0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > It seems to me that the Intel hardware guys have done half a job > > here: the sooner they get to remapping the bad pages, the better. > > When we can offer to set aside half memory :) Maybe even adding to the ECC error codes so uncorrected errors are reduced to a similar frequency to other sources of errors in the hardware. That seems like the sanest thing to me, but it's not mine to wonder... -- 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/