Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/16] mm,hwpoison: Rework soft offline for free pages

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Oct 22 2019 - 04:26:16 EST


On Tue 22-10-19 09:46:20, Oscar Salvador wrote:
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> So, opposite to hard-offline, in soft-offline we do not fiddle with pages
> unless we are sure the page is not reachable anymore by any means.

I have to say I do not follow. Is there any _real_ reason for
soft-offline to behave differenttly from MCE (hard-offline)?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs