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? > 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. Thanks, Kyle Meyer
