Re: [Patch 0/2] Exclude hwpoison page from vmcore dump

Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-01T10:41:16Z

Mitsuhiro Tanino <mitsuhiro.tanino.gm@hitachi.com> writes:

> Hi Vivek,
>
> (2012/10/31 23:14), Vivek Goyal wrote:
>> If hwpoision functionality is not available in hardware, then respective
>> bit will not be even set in struct page and it will be saved by default.
>> So it should not matter whether hardware has hwpoision functionality
>> or not.
>
> Thanks, I understand.
>
>> I think that removing hwpoisno pages by default makes sense. If somebody
>> does have a reasonable case of not doing so, then we could either
>> introduce anther filtering level (based on type) or add another command
>> line option like (--no-hwposion-filtering) etc.
>
> I agree with you.
> If somebody requests to support for disabling the filter of hwpoison pages,
> this option will be discussed.

I agree. If we are performing filtering filtering out of poisoned pages
seems very reasonable. So ack on the basic concept.

Eric