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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND v2] x86/mce: Set PG_hwpoison page flag to avoid the capture kernel panic
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 11:00:57AM +0800, Zhiquan Li wrote:
> Aha, this is the neat thing about the patch. The main task of kdump
> kernel is providing a "window" - /proc/vmcore, for the dump program to
> access old memory. A dump program running in userspace determines the
> "policy". Which pages need to be dumped is determined by the
> configuration of dump program, it reads out the pages that the
> sustaining engineer is interested in and excludes the rest. The de
> facto dump program (makedumpfile) already supports to identify those
> poisoned pages and exclude them a decade ago:

Yes, put that in your commit message.

> When we were developing the patch internally, Tony contributed a lot of
> precious ideas and guidance, not only the code change he mentioned in
> commit message.
>
> The previous V2 sent by Tony missed the merge window of v6.5, so I
> re-based it onto the latest v6.6 rc, re-validated and re-send the patch.
> And I will follow up the feedback from community.

Then you should ask Tony whether he wants Co-developed-by:. See

Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

for detail.

There it is also explained what an SOB chain is and how it should look
like.

Thx.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

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