Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758526Ab1FVSGh (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:06:37 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:56681 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758488Ab1FVSGg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:06:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Uhy5+s596r6dY31LFVmS6YHKRIOHJ9XRl2XFkgl19gwbWjuihuMNJGve6LXBGHHI+l X2scX/uUjEYrNdenzvhB3/F1OfQA9ZUaJydpOKZY6xc7rGtnPgRMhYOC9gw69fkPVI60 yjzqlL8ztd25EiyCuVr8RyjgR6WOJU8WUe4vs= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110622110034.89ee399c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1308741534-6846-1-git-send-email-sassmann@kpanic.de> <20110622110034.89ee399c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:06:34 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) From: Josh Boyer To: Andrew Morton Cc: Stefan Assmann , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, rick@vanrein.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, Nancy Yuen , Michael Ditto Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 930 Lines: 23 On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:> > I have a couple of thoughts here: > > - If this patchset is merged and a major user such as google is > ?unable to use it and has to continue to carry a separate patch then > ?that's a regrettable situation for the upstream kernel. > > - Google's is, afaik, the largest use case we know of: zillions of > ?machines for a number of years. ?And this real-world experience tells > ?us that the badram patchset has shortcomings. ?Shortcomings which we > ?can expect other users to experience. > > So. ?What are your thoughts on these issues? Has Google submitted patches for their implementation? josh -- 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/