From: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] HWPOISON: remove the unsafe __set_page_locked()
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:58:53 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909261251090.15781@sister.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090926114806.GA12419@localhost>
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>
> However we may well end up to accept the fact that "we just cannot do
> hwpoison 100% correct", and settle with a simple and 99% correct code.
I thought we already accepted that: you cannot do hwpoison 100% correct
(or not without a radical rewrite of the OS); you're just looking to
get it right almost all the time on those systems which have almost
all their pages in pagecache or userspace or free.
Hugh
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] HWPOISON: remove the unsafe __set_page_locked()
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:58:53 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909261251090.15781@sister.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090926114806.GA12419@localhost>
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>
> However we may well end up to accept the fact that "we just cannot do
> hwpoison 100% correct", and settle with a simple and 99% correct code.
I thought we already accepted that: you cannot do hwpoison 100% correct
(or not without a radical rewrite of the OS); you're just looking to
get it right almost all the time on those systems which have almost
all their pages in pagecache or userspace or free.
Hugh
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-26 3:15 [RFC][PATCH] HWPOISON: remove the unsafe __set_page_locked() Wu Fengguang
2009-09-26 3:15 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-26 3:49 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-26 3:49 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-26 10:52 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-26 10:52 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-26 11:31 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-26 11:31 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-27 10:47 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-27 10:47 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-27 19:20 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-27 19:20 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-28 8:44 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-28 8:44 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-29 5:16 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-29 5:16 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-10-01 2:02 ` Nick Piggin
2009-10-01 2:02 ` Nick Piggin
2009-10-02 10:54 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-10-02 10:54 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-26 11:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-26 11:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-26 11:48 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-26 11:48 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-26 11:58 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2009-09-26 11:58 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-26 15:05 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-26 15:05 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-26 19:12 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-26 19:12 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-26 19:14 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-26 19:14 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-26 19:06 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-26 19:06 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-26 21:32 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-26 21:32 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-27 16:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-27 16:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-27 19:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-27 19:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-27 21:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-27 21:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-27 23:01 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-27 23:01 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-28 1:19 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-28 1:19 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-28 1:52 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-28 1:52 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-28 2:57 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-28 2:57 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-28 4:11 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-28 4:11 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-28 4:29 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-28 4:29 ` Nick Piggin
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