Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:16:26 +0530 | From | "Naveen N. Rao" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4] mce: acpi/apei: Add a sysctl to control page offlining on firmware report |
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On 07/03/2013 08:16 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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. :)
Nope, this is a just-in-case thing. I think you or Tony asked to have this in a previous discussion so that we're covered if firmware starts acting up. Other than that, I'm ok if this is left out.
Thanks, Naveen
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