Re: [PATCH 3/3] ia64: Call migration code on correctable errors v2

[Andi Kleen]

Russ Anderson <rja@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Migrate data off pages with correctable memory errors.  This patch is the 
> ia64 specific piece.  It connects the CPE handler to the page migration
> code.  It is implemented as a kernel loadable module, similar to the mca
> recovery code (mca_recovery.ko).  This allows the feature to be turned off
> by uninstalling the module.  Creates /proc/badram to display bad page
> information and free bad pages.

How do you know what pages have excessive errors? And how is excessive defined?
Surely you don't keep  a per page error count? It's unclear from your patch. 

Anyways I don't think this should be ia64 specific, but generic code.

I also have my doubts about making such small code subsystems modules. Modules
always get rounded to pages so it ultimatively just wastes memory.

-Andi
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