Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756852Ab0FSTwo (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:52:44 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:55007 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756782Ab0FSTwn (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:52:43 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:52:42 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Andi Kleen , fengguang.wu@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [31/31] HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining Message-ID: <20100619195242.GS18946@basil.fritz.box> References: <200912081016.198135742@firstfloor.org> <20091208211647.9B032B151F@basil.firstfloor.org> <20100619132055.GK18946@basil.fritz.box> <20100619133000.GL18946@basil.fritz.box> <20100619140933.GM18946@basil.fritz.box> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 777 Lines: 25 > .TP > .BR MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE " (Since Linux 2.6.33) > Soft offline the pages in the range specified by > .I addr > and > .IR length . > This memory of each page in the specified range is copied to a new page, Actually there are some cases where it's also dropped if it's cached page. Perhaps better would be something more fuzzy like "the contents are preserved" > and the original page is offlined > (i.e., no longer used, and taken out of normal memory management). -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/