Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages

Breno Leitao
2026-04-24T14:40:30Z

On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 02:19:13PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 05:23:58AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > This is a common problem on large fleets. We frequently observe multi-bit ECC
> > errors hitting kernel slab pages, where memory_failure() fails to recover them
> > and the system crashes later at an unrelated code path, making root cause
> > analysis unnecessarily difficult.
>
> Who is "we"? Please attribute your patches to your employer by putting
> their name in brackets after yours. My ~/.gitconfig has:
>
> [user]
> name = Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)

Thank you for the feedback. You're absolutely right - I avoided
"we" entirely since it lacks proper attribution. This is something
I catch before subimtting patches, but this one went through.

I'll update the commit message when I respin the series