From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70FDA6B0071 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:19:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by bwz4 with SMTP id 4so847951bwz.14 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:19:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20100619195242.GS18946@basil.fritz.box> References: <200912081016.198135742@firstfloor.org> <20091208211647.9B032B151F@basil.firstfloor.org> <20100619132055.GK18946@basil.fritz.box> <20100619133000.GL18946@basil.fritz.box> <20100619140933.GM18946@basil.fritz.box> <20100619195242.GS18946@basil.fritz.box> From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:19:35 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] [31/31] HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi Andi, On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: >> .TP >> .BR MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE " (Since Linux 2.6.33) >> Soft offline the pages in the range specified by >> .I addr >> and >> .IR length . >> This memory of each page in the specified range is copied to a new page, > > Actually there are some cases where it's also dropped if it's cached page. > > Perhaps better would be something more fuzzy like > > "the contents are preserved" The problem to me is that this gets so fuzzy that it's hard to understand the meaning (I imagine many readers will ask: "What does it mean that the contents are preserved"?). Would you be able to come up with a wording that is a little miore detailed? >> and the original page is offlined >> (i.e., no longer used, and taken out of normal memory management). Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org