Re: [PATCH] [11/19] HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow directtruncating of page v2

[Andi Kleen]

> This is not relevant for s390, as current machines do transparent memory
> sparing if a memory module goes bad. Really old machines reported bad
> memory to the OS by means of a machine check (storage error uncorrected
> and storage error corrected). I have never seen this happen, the level
> below the OS deals with these errors for us.

Ok fine. It's for the poorer cousins then who can't afford memory mirroring.

-Andi

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