Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages

From: Matthew Wilcox

Date: Fri Apr 24 2026 - 09:19:43 EST


On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 05:23:58AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> This is a common problem on large fleets. We frequently observe multi-bit ECC
> errors hitting kernel slab pages, where memory_failure() fails to recover them
> and the system crashes later at an unrelated code path, making root cause
> analysis unnecessarily difficult.

Who is "we"? Please attribute your patches to your employer by putting
their name in brackets after yours. My ~/.gitconfig has:

[user]
name = Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)