From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758350AbZFLQOS (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:14:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753011AbZFLQOI (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:14:08 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56637 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752748AbZFLQOG (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:14:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:12:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Ingo Molnar cc: Wu Fengguang , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , LKML , Nick Piggin , Hugh Dickins , Andi Kleen , "riel@redhat.com" , "chris.mason@oracle.com" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] HWPOISON: define VM_FAULT_HWPOISON to 0 when feature is disabled In-Reply-To: <20090612154525.GA14438@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20090611142239.192891591@intel.com> <20090611144430.414445947@intel.com> <20090612112258.GA14123@elte.hu> <20090612125741.GA6140@localhost> <20090612131754.GA32105@elte.hu> <20090612154525.GA14438@elte.hu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > 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". That is absolutely _not_ how any real-life sysadmin would ever react. Linus