Re: [PATCH V2] MCE: fix an error of mce_bad_pages statistics

[Andi Kleen]

> HWPoison delays any action on buddy allocator pages, handling can be safely postponed 
> until a later time when the page might be referenced. By delaying, some transient errors 
> may not reoccur or may be irrelevant.

That's not true for soft offlining, only for hard.

-Andi
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