linux-acpi.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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, 03 Jul 2013 21:16:26 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D44752.3000303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130703144641.GC13951@pd.tnic>

On 07/03/2013 08:16 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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. :)

Nope, this is a just-in-case thing. I think you or Tony asked to have 
this in a previous discussion so that we're covered if firmware starts 
acting up. Other than that, I'm ok if this is left out.


Thanks,
Naveen


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-03 15:46 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
2013-07-03 15:46     ` Naveen N. Rao [this message]
2013-07-08 20:26       ` Luck, Tony
2013-07-10  9:17         ` Naveen N. Rao

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=51D44752.3000303@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --to=naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=ananth@in.ibm.com \
    --cc=bp@alien8.de \
    --cc=lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=masbock@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=tony.luck@intel.com \
    --cc=ying.huang@intel.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).