From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Implement hwpoison on free for soft offlining
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:15:32 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101013091553.ADB1.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101012131414.GC20436@basil.fritz.box>
> > To me, it's no problem if this keep 64bit only. IOW, I only dislike to
> > add 32bit page flags.
> >
> > Yeah, memory corruption is very crap and i think your effort has a lot
> > of worth :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
> >
> > offtopic, I don't think CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE and CONFIG_HWPOISON_ON_FREE
> > are symmetric nor easy understandable. can you please consider naming change?
> > (example, CONFIG_HWPOISON/CONFIG_HWPOISON_ON_FREE,
> > CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE/CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE_SOFT_OFFLINE)
>
> memory-failure was the old name before hwpoison as a term was invented
> by Andrew.
>
> In theory it would make sense to rename everything to "hwpoison" now.
> But I decided so far the disadvantages from breaking user configurations
> and the impact from renaming files far outweight the small benefits
> in clarity.
>
> So right now I prefer to keep the status quo, but name everything
> new hwpoison.
ok. I've got it. thanks :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-13 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-06 22:09 Andi Kleen
2010-10-06 22:09 ` [PATCH] HWPOISON: Implement hwpoison-on-free " Andi Kleen
2010-10-12 12:26 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-12 12:37 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-12 12:41 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-12 8:11 ` RFC: Implement hwpoison on free " Andi Kleen
2010-10-12 9:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-12 13:14 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-13 0:15 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2010-10-15 8:50 ` Andi Kleen
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