From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov 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 Message-ID: <20130703144641.GC13951@pd.tnic> References: <20130701153728.6197.14022.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20130702125137.7388.97225.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130702125137.7388.97225.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Naveen N. Rao" 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 List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --