From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754713AbZLCBpP (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:45:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753354AbZLCBpO (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:45:14 -0500 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:29955 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754051AbZLCBpN (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:45:13 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,316,1257148800"; d="scan'208";a="218197794" Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:45:18 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/24] HWPOISON: make it possible to unpoison pages Message-ID: <20091203014518.GB8520@localhost> References: <20091202031231.735876003@intel.com> <20091202043045.150526892@intel.com> <20091202131530.GG18989@one.firstfloor.org> <20091202134645.GA19274@localhost> <20091202140305.GL18989@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091202140305.GL18989@one.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 10:03:05PM +0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > > btw, do you feel comfortable with the interface name "renew-pfn"? > > (versus "unpoison-pfn") > > I prefer unpoison, that makes it clear what it is. OK. > Maybe even call it "software_unpoison_pfn", because it won't unpoison on the > hardware level (this really should be documented somewhere too) Yes we can document it in Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt. Does that mean we may introduce a "hardware_unpoison_pfn" in future? (a superset of software_unpoison_pfn) And "software_unpoison_pfn" may make the other "corrupt-pfn" a bit confusing ;) Thanks, Fengguang