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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory-failure.c | 8 |
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diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index 501820c815b3..dfa9dd7f1aea 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ * this code has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use * normal locking rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means * the error handling takes potentially a long time. + * + * It can be very tempting to add handling for obscure cases here. + * In general any code for handling new cases should only be added iff: + * - You know how to test it. + * - You have a test that can be added to mce-test + * https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/cpu/mce/mce-test.git/ + * - The case actually shows up as a frequent (top 10) page state in + * tools/vm/page-types when running a real workload. * * There are several operations here with exponential complexity because * of unsuitable VM data structures. For example the operation to map back |