From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com (mail-wm0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98BD36B0255 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2015 11:11:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by wmec201 with SMTP id c201so219351250wme.0 for ; Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:11:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-wm0-x22a.google.com (mail-wm0-x22a.google.com. [2a00:1450:400c:c09::22a]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14si31312085wmq.78.2015.12.08.08.11.07 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:11:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by wmww144 with SMTP id w144so35877931wmw.0 for ; Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:11:07 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1448636635-15946-1-git-send-email-izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com> <20151207163112.930a495d24ab259cad9020ac@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 08:11:06 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option From: Tony Luck Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Izumi, Taku" Cc: Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "qiuxishi@huawei.com" , "Kamezawa, Hiroyuki" , "mel@csn.ul.ie" , "dave.hansen@intel.com" , "matt@codeblueprint.co.uk" On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Izumi, Taku wrote: > Which do you think is beter ? > - change into kernelcore="mirrored" > - keep kernelcore="reliable" and minmal printk fix UEFI came up with the "reliable" wording (as a more generic term ... as Andrew said it could cover differences in ECC modes, or some alternate memory technology that has lower error rates). But I personally like "mirror" more ... it matches current implementation. Of course I'll look silly if some future system does something other than mirror. -Tony -- 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