Re: [RFC][PATCH] HWPOISON: remove the unsafe __set_page_locked()

Nick Piggin
2009-09-26T19:14:52Z

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 07:48:06PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 07:09:21PM +0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > It seems to me that the Intel hardware guys have done half a job
> > here: the sooner they get to remapping the bad pages, the better.
>
> When we can offer to set aside half memory :)

Maybe even adding to the ECC error codes so uncorrected errors
are reduced to a similar frequency to other sources of errors in
the hardware. That seems like the sanest thing to me, but it's
not mine to wonder...