Re: [PATCH v3] mm/memory-failure: Support disabling soft offline for HugeTLB pages

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 9/16/26 15:45, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 16-09-26 15:28:01, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 9/16/26 15:19, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, no dispute on that. But we have HW poisoning for exactly that
>>> purpose, no?
>>
>> Well, that tells you that the page content is effectively gone and should be
>> tried to be recovered / migrated away. Unless I am messing up terminology here.
> 
> Maybe it is me messing up the terminology...
> But I guess we have established that whether soft offlining is being
> abused or not, excluding hugetlb through a configuration is just a wrong
> thing to do.

Yes, it's odd that you wouldn't want to evacuate hugetlb but everything else.

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Cheers,

David