Re: [PATCH 00/22] HWPOISON: Intro (v5)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Russ Anderson wrote:
>>
>> However, the more fundamental thing is that it is always trivial to
>> promote an error to a higher severity; the opposite is not true.  As
>> such, it becomes an administrator-set policy, which is what it needs to be.
> 
> Good point.  On ia64 the recovery code is implemented as a kernel
> loadable module.  Installing the module turns on the feature.
> 
> That is handy for customer demos.  Install the module, inject a
> memory error, have an application read the bad data and get killed.
> Repeat a few times.  Then uninstall the module, inject a
> memory error, have an application read the bad data and watch
> the system panic.
> 
> Then it is the customer's choice to have it on or off.
> 

There are a number of ways to set escalation policy.  Modules isn't
necessarily the best, but it doesn't really matter what the exact
mechanism is.

	-hpa
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