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

Mitsuhiro Tanino
2012-11-01T10:32:54Z

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.

Regards,
Mitshuhiro Tanino (mitsuhiro.tanino.gm@hitachi.com)