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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	fengguang.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: More thoughts about hwpoison and pageflags compression
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:53:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090529235302.ccf58d88.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090530063710.GI1065@one.firstfloor.org>

On Sat, 30 May 2009 08:37:10 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> So using a separate bit is a sensible choice imho.

Could you make the feature 64-bit-only and use one of bits 32-63?

Did you consider making the poison tag external to the pageframe?  Some
hash(page*) into a bitmap or something?  If suitably designed, such
infrastructure could perhaps be reused to reclaim some existing page
flags.  Dave Hansen had such a patch a few years back.  Or maybe it
was Andy Whitcroft.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-30  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-29 21:35 [PATCH] [0/16] HWPOISON: Intro Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [1/16] HWPOISON: Add page flag for poisoned pages Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:52   ` Alan Cox
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [2/16] HWPOISON: Export poison flag in /proc/kpageflags Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [3/16] HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [4/16] HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2 Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [5/16] HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [6/16] HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3 Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [7/16] HWPOISON: Add various poison checks in mm/memory.c Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [8/16] HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [9/16] HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [10/16] HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [11/16] HWPOISON: Handle poisoned pages in set_page_dirty() Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [12/16] HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [13/16] HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v4 Andi Kleen
2009-06-01 11:16   ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-01 12:46     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [14/16] HWPOISON: FOR TESTING: Enable memory failure code unconditionally Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [15/16] HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v3 Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:35 ` [PATCH] [16/16] HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs Andi Kleen
2009-05-29 21:52 ` [PATCH] [0/16] HWPOISON: Intro Alan Cox
2009-05-29 22:24   ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-30  6:37   ` More thoughts about hwpoison and pageflags compression Andi Kleen
2009-05-30  6:53     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-05-30  7:27       ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-30  7:29         ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-30  7:55           ` Andi Kleen

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