Re: [PATCH 4] mce: acpi/apei: Add a sysctl to control page offliningon firmware report

[Naveen N. Rao]

On 07/03/2013 08:16 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:24:00PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> > I am adding another patch here to disable page offlining in case the firmware
> > starts acting up.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Naveen
> >
> > --
> >
> > Add a sysctl memory_failure_soft_offline to control what is done on receipt of
> > firmware ghes notification for a corrected error. By default, kernel tries
> > to soft-offline the page immediately. If set to 0, no action is taken.
>
> What is the rationale for that? Are we adding it just in case, as a
> chicken bit or do you have a specific case?
>
> If the second, we'd love to hear about it in the commit message. :)

Nope, this is a just-in-case thing. I think you or Tony asked to have 
this in a previous discussion so that we're covered if firmware starts 
acting up. Other than that, I'm ok if this is left out.


Thanks,
Naveen

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