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+What:           /sys/devices/system/memory/soft_offline_page
+Date:           Sep 2009
+KernelVersion:  2.6.33
+Contact:        andi@firstfloor.org
+Description:
+                Soft-offline the memory page containing the physical address
+                written into this file. Input is a hex number specifying the
+                physical address of the page. The kernel will then attempt
+                to soft-offline it, by moving the contents elsewhere or
+                dropping it if possible. The kernel will then be placed
+                on the bad page list and never be reused.
+
+                The offlining is done in kernel specific granuality.
+                Normally it's the base page size of the kernel, but
+                this might change.
+
+                The page must be still accessible, not poisoned. The
+                kernel will never kill anything for this, but rather
+                fail the offline.  Return value is the size of the
+                number, or a error when the offlining failed.  Reading
+                the file is not allowed.
+
+What:           /sys/devices/system/memory/hard_offline_page
+Date:           Sep 2009
+KernelVersion:  2.6.33
+Contact:        andi@firstfloor.org
+Description:
+                Hard-offline the memory page containing the physical
+                address written into this file. Input is a hex number
+                specifying the physical address of the page. The
+                kernel will then attempt to hard-offline the page, by
+                trying to drop the page or killing any owner or
+                triggering IO errors if needed.  Note this may kill
+                any processes owning the page. The kernel will avoid
+                to access this page assuming it's poisoned by the
+                hardware.
+
+                The offlining is done in kernel specific granuality.
+                Normally it's the base page size of the kernel, but
+                this might change.
+
+                Return value is the size of the number, or a error when
+                the offlining failed.
+                Reading the file is not allowed.