Messages in this thread | | | From | (Rick van Rein) | Subject | Where is memory handed out? | Date | Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:06:54 +0100 (MET) |
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Hi!
I'm working on a memory subsystem patch to deal with faulty RAM, for instance caused by static electricity or production failures. I have everything in place and working except for one thing: Avoiding that the faulty pages can get allocated.
There must be a place where physical memory, after chunks are taken off of the beginning (for page maps etc), actually are handed out to the free_area structures, through something like __free_pages. But that routine does not seem to be called from such code, and neither are the remap routines (only called from drivers).
Can anybody tell me where/how the "whole" of physical memory is handed over to the free_area structures?
Thanx a lot, -Rick.
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