Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] RAS: Correctable Errors Collector thing
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed May 28 2014 - 13:23:57 EST
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 09:53:35AM -0700, Max Asbock wrote:
> A possible alternative would be to soft-offline the page. This is
> currently done in APEI code when corrected memory error thresholds are
> exceeded and reported by UEFI via a generic hardware error source
> (GHES).
> The example is in ghes_handle_memory_failure() where we call
> memory_failure_queue(pfn, 0, flags) with flags = MF_SOFT_OFFLINE
Ok, we can try that - it certainly makes sense. We're designing the
plumbing of this thing as we go so fitting it correctly into the whole
reporting/error handling chain is still open. It is RFC anyway so...
Thanks.
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Boris.
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