From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:10:20 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] Remove limit on MCA recoveries
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:49:06 -0600 (CST), 
Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> wrote:
>The MCA recovery driver saves addresses memory errors
>in an array.  The array has 32 entries.  The effect is 
>that after 32 recoveries, the driver stops recovering.
>
>This patch removes the page_isolate array.  Since the array
>was only used to see if the page is already marked reserved,
>check the reserved bit instead of the array.

lkcd dumps kernel pages marked reserved, so lkcd will try to process
isolated pages.  We will eventually need to add a new page flag to mark
faulty pages.