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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] HWPOISON: define VM_FAULT_HWPOISON to 0 when feature is disabled

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> So i find the whole feature rather dubious - what's the point? We
> should panic at this point - we just corrupted user data so that
> piece of hardware cannot be trusted. Nor can any subsequent kernel
> bug messages be trusted.

s/panic/print nasty message

Not sure what i was smoking there. Sysadmin will panic from a memory
corruption message anyway.

What feels wrong to me is: kill a process and - in the case where
that process is restartable or expendable - suggest to the admin
that "everything is fine, we handled it just fine".

Ingo


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