Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:04:17 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [11/19] HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2 |
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> This is not relevant for s390, as current machines do transparent memory > sparing if a memory module goes bad. Really old machines reported bad > memory to the OS by means of a machine check (storage error uncorrected > and storage error corrected). I have never seen this happen, the level > below the OS deals with these errors for us.
Ok fine. It's for the poorer cousins then who can't afford memory mirroring.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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