Re: Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlbfs: add hwcrp_hugepages to record memory failure on hugetlbfs

[wangbin]

> If you can use root privilege in your use-case, an easy way to get the
> number of corrupted hugepages is to use page-types.c (which reads
> /proc/kpageflags) like below:
> 
>     $ page-types -b huge,hwpoison=huge,hwpoison
>                  flags      page-count       MB  symbolic-flags                     long-symbolic-flags
>     0x00000000000a8000               1        0  _______________H_G_X_______________________        compound_head,huge,hwpoison
>                  total               1        0
> 
> But I guess that many usecases do not permit access to this interface,
> where some new accounting interface for corrupted hugepages could be
> helpful as you suggest.

Thanks for your suggestion very much. This approach is helpful to me.
But as you say, root privilege is not permitted in most cases. And I
also want to know the number of corrupted hugepages per node.

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Bin Wang