Alison Schofield wrote:
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> > I notice that the ndctl --media-errors records are:
> >
> > { offset, length }
> >
> > ...it is not clear to me that "dpa" and "hpa" have much meaning to
> > userspace by default. Physical address information is privileged, so if
> > these records were { offset, length } tuples there is the possibility
> > that they can be provided to non-root.
> >
> > "Offset" is region relative "hpa" when listing region media errors, and
> > "offset" is memdev relative "dpa" while listing memdev relative media
> > errors.
>
> Done. memdev relative dpa is just dpa right? Unless you are thinking
> offset into a partition? I don't think so.
Right,
memdev offset == absolute device dpa
region offset == region base relative
