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* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: >> very nice patch! I always thought that this was the proper way to do >> memtest - and we could in fact also do something like this after SMP >> bringup, and hit the memory bus via multiple CPUs. [that will need a >> different enumeration though than e820 maps] >> >> one structural observation: please make this unified functionality, >> so that 32-bit kernels can make use of it too. >> > > Indeed. Of course, it would also be nice if distros shipped > bootloader-invoked prekernel test software, like memtest86+, by > default. some do (Fedora for example), but it's still a bit quirky for users to invoke and it would be nice to see those results in the kernel log as well and flag possibly flaky systems that way. (add a taint bit, etc., etc.) Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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