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From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:19:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [31/31] HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page 
	offlining
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Hi Andi,
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>> .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"

The problem to me is that this gets so fuzzy that it's hard to
understand the meaning (I imagine many readers will ask: "What does it
mean that the contents are preserved"?). Would you be able to come up
with a wording that is a little miore detailed?

>> and the original page is offlined
>> (i.e., no longer used, and taken out of normal memory management).

Thanks,

Michael


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