From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBB36B004F for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:35:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:36:43 +0200 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH] [13/16] HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v5 Message-ID: <20090610123643.GA22161@wotan.suse.de> References: <20090603846.816684333@firstfloor.org> <20090603184648.2E2131D028F@basil.firstfloor.org> <20090609100922.GF14820@wotan.suse.de> <20090610083803.GE6597@localhost> <20090610085939.GE31155@wotan.suse.de> <20090610092010.GA32584@localhost> <20090610110305.GB3876@wotan.suse.de> <20090610121645.GC5657@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090610121645.GC5657@localhost> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Wu Fengguang Cc: Hugh Dickins , Andi Kleen , "riel@redhat.com" , "chris.mason@oracle.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:16:45PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 07:03:05PM +0800, Nick Piggin wrote: > > The application equally may not need to touch the data again, so > > killing it might cause some inconsistency in whatever it is currently > > doing. > > Yes, early kill can also be evil. What I can do now is to document the > early kill parameter more carefully. That would be good. I would also strongly consider removing options if possible to make things simpler and if there is not a really compelling reason to have it. Thanks, Nick -- 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