From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"ltp@lists.linux.it" <ltp@lists.linux.it>
Subject: Re: Is MADV_HWPOISON supposed to work only on faulted-in pages?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:54:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zig6uvgd.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170223032342.GA18740@hori1.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp> (Naoya Horiguchi's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2017 03:23:49 +0000")
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> writes:
>
> I think that what the testcase effectively does is to test whether memory
> handling on zero pages works or not.
> And the testcase's failure seems acceptable, because it's simply not-implemented yet.
> Maybe recovering from error on zero page is possible (because there's no data
> loss for memory error,) but I'm not sure that code might be simple enough and/or
> it's worth doing ...
I doubt it's worth doing, it's just too unlikely that a specific page
is hit. Memory error handling is all about probabilities.
The test is just broken and should be fixed.
mce-test had similar problems at some point, but they were all fixed.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-27 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-14 15:41 Jan Stancek
2017-02-20 5:00 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-23 3:23 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-25 2:28 ` Yisheng Xie
2017-02-27 1:20 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-27 4:27 ` Zi Yan
2017-02-27 6:33 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2017-02-27 16:10 ` Zi Yan
2017-03-14 13:20 ` [LTP] " Cyril Hrubis
2017-03-27 12:08 ` Richard Palethorpe
2017-03-27 23:54 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2017-03-28 8:25 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-03-28 20:26 ` Andi Kleen
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