On Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:53:47 -0500 Kyle Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 11:47:11AM +0800, Shuai Xue wrote: > > Hi Kyle, > > Hi. > > > Following up on this thread. The v2 patch once landed in akpm's mm > > tree (9ae6eefa4b6b "mm/memory-failure: support disabling soft > > offline for HugeTLB pages"), but that commit is now not reachable > > from any branch, and mainline as of v7.3-rc1 still only has the 0/1 > > switch in /proc/sys/vm/enable_soft_offline. > > Thanks for pointing this out. > > Looks like this patch was added on 2025-09-16 [1] and dropped on 2025-11-11 > [2]. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected] > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected] > > I must have missed the second email. > > I don't remember discussing a v3. Can someone please remind me what we planned > to change or whether there was another reason it was dropped? I interpreted the (lengthy) review discussion to mean that a new version was to be sent out. > > The underlying issue discussed here is still unresolved for us: > > firmware reporting per-rank corrected error thresholds via GHES > > triggers soft offline of huge pages, which neither addresses the > > failing rank nor is acceptable for workloads that rely on stable > > hugetlb physical layouts. > > > > Do you still plan to send a v3, e.g. with the disable-bitmask > > layout Anshuman suggested upthread? > > I wasn't planning on sending a v3 but I'm happy to revisit if needed. That would be best at this stage - please review the changelog to see if additional details should be added to cover the considerations which were discussed.
