From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com,
hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [11/19] HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:04:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090806120417.GC22124@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090806134830.4f3931d2@skybase>
> This is not relevant for s390, as current machines do transparent memory
> sparing if a memory module goes bad. Really old machines reported bad
> memory to the OS by means of a machine check (storage error uncorrected
> and storage error corrected). I have never seen this happen, the level
> below the OS deals with these errors for us.
Ok fine. It's for the poorer cousins then who can't afford memory mirroring.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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2009-08-05 14:16 ` [PATCH] [11/19] HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2 Nick Piggin
2009-08-05 14:16 ` Nick Piggin
2009-08-05 14:41 ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-05 14:44 ` Nick Piggin
2009-08-05 15:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-08-06 11:48 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-08-06 12:04 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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