Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jul 2013 16:46:42 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4] mce: acpi/apei: Add a sysctl to control page offlining on firmware report |
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:24:00PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote: > I am adding another patch here to disable page offlining in case the firmware > starts acting up. > > Thanks, > Naveen > > -- > > Add a sysctl memory_failure_soft_offline to control what is done on receipt of > firmware ghes notification for a corrected error. By default, kernel tries > to soft-offline the page immediately. If set to 0, no action is taken.
What is the rationale for that? Are we adding it just in case, as a chicken bit or do you have a specific case?
If the second, we'd love to hear about it in the commit message. :)
Thanks.
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