From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, ananth@in.ibm.com,
masbock@linux.vnet.ibm.com, lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
ying.huang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4] mce: acpi/apei: Add a sysctl to control page offlining on firmware report
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 16:46:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130703144641.GC13951@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130702125137.7388.97225.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:24:00PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> I am adding another patch here to disable page offlining in case the firmware
> starts acting up.
>
> Thanks,
> Naveen
>
> --
>
> Add a sysctl memory_failure_soft_offline to control what is done on receipt of
> firmware ghes notification for a corrected error. By default, kernel tries
> to soft-offline the page immediately. If set to 0, no action is taken.
What is the rationale for that? Are we adding it just in case, as a
chicken bit or do you have a specific case?
If the second, we'd love to hear about it in the commit message. :)
Thanks.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-03 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-01 15:38 [PATCH v3 0/3] Firmware first mode for corrected errors Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] mce: acpi/apei: Honour Firmware First for MCA banks listed in APEI HEST CMC Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-01 22:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mce: acpi/apei: Add a boot option to disable ff mode for corrected errors Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-01 22:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mce, acpi/apei: Soft-offline a page on firmware GHES notification Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-01 23:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-02 11:05 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-02 11:32 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-03 14:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-03 15:40 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-08 19:00 ` Tony Luck
2013-07-10 9:27 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-10 9:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-10 20:05 ` Tony Luck
2013-07-01 20:08 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Firmware first mode for corrected errors Borislav Petkov
2013-07-02 12:54 ` [PATCH 4] mce: acpi/apei: Add a sysctl to control page offlining on firmware report Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-03 14:46 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-07-03 15:46 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-08 20:26 ` Luck, Tony
2013-07-10 9:17 ` Naveen N. Rao
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