Re: [PATCH] [0/16] POISON: Intro

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue,  7 Apr 2009 17:09:56 +0200 (CEST) Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Upcoming Intel CPUs have support for recovering from some memory errors. This
> requires the OS to declare a page "poisoned", kill the processes associated
> with it and avoid using it in the future. This patchkit implements
> the necessary infrastructure in the VM.

If the page is clean then we can just toss it and grab a new one from
backing store without killing anyone.

Does the patchset do that?
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