From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C9485F0001 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:19:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 22:15:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/16] POISON: Intro Message-Id: <20090407221542.91cd3c42.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090407509.382219156@firstfloor.org> References: <20090407509.382219156@firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:09:56 +0200 (CEST) Andi Kleen wrote: > Upcoming Intel CPUs have support for recovering from some memory errors. This > requires the OS to declare a page "poisoned", kill the processes associated > with it and avoid using it in the future. This patchkit implements > the necessary infrastructure in the VM. If the page is clean then we can just toss it and grab a new one from backing store without killing anyone. Does the patchset do that? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org