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From: Ric Mason <ric.masonn@gmail.com>
To: Mitsuhiro Tanino <mitsuhiro.tanino.gm@hitachi.com>
Cc: Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@gmail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 0/2] mm: Add parameters to make kernel behavior at memory error on dirty cache selectable
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:00:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5166B3FE.4000002@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5166B1DF.8070504@hitachi.com>

Hi Mitsuhiro,
On 04/11/2013 08:51 PM, Mitsuhiro Tanino wrote:
> (2013/04/11 12:53), Simon Jeons wrote:
>> One question against mce instead of the patchset. ;-)
>>
>> When check memory is bad? Before memory access? Is there a process scan it period?
> Hi Simon-san,
>
> Yes, there is a process to scan memory periodically.
>
> At Intel Nehalem-EX and CPUs after Nehalem-EX generation, MCA recovery
> is supported. MCA recovery provides error detection and isolation
> features to work together with OS.
> One of the MCA Recovery features is Memory Scrubbing. It periodically
> checks memory in the background of OS.

Memory Scrubbing is a kernel thread? Where is the codes of memory scrubbing?

>
> If Memory Scrubbing find an uncorrectable error on a memory before
> OS accesses the memory bit, MCA recovery notifies SRAO error into OS

It maybe can't find memory error timely since it is sleeping when memory 
error occur, can this case happened?

> and OS handles the SRAO error using hwpoison function.
>
> Regards,
> Mitsuhiro Tanino
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-11 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-11  3:26 [RFC Patch 0/2] mm: Add parameters to make kernel behavior at memory error on dirty cache selectable Mitsuhiro Tanino
2013-04-11  3:53 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-11 12:51   ` Mitsuhiro Tanino
2013-04-11 13:00     ` Ric Mason [this message]
2013-04-12 13:43       ` Mitsuhiro Tanino
2013-04-17  5:49         ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-11  7:11 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-04-12 13:24   ` Mitsuhiro Tanino
2013-04-12 14:45     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-04-17  7:14   ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-17 14:55     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-04-18  0:27       ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-11 13:49 ` Andi Kleen
2013-04-11 15:23   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-04-11 18:10     ` Andi Kleen
2013-04-12 13:38       ` Mitsuhiro Tanino
2013-04-12 15:13         ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-04-17 13:58           ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-04-17  6:42     ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-17 14:16       ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-04-17  5:30   ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-11 15:15 ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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