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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram
    On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
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    > * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > > do simple memtest after init_memory_mapping
    > >
    > > use find_e820_area_size to find all ram range that is not reserved.
    > >
    > > and do some simple bits test to find some bad ram.
    > >
    > > if find some bad ram, use reserve_early to exclude that range.
    >
    > 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]
    or
    1. core0/node0 check all memory at first
    2. every core0 will check all memory later one by one.

    >
    > one structural observation: please make this unified functionality, so
    > that 32-bit kernels can make use of it too.

    that will need to use PAE to switch 2G windows ....

    >
    > a small style nit from scripts/checkpatch.pl:
    >
    >
    > > +// printk(KERN_DEBUG "find_e820_area_size : e820 %d [%llx, %lx]\n", i, ei->addr, ei_last);
    >
    > remove such lines or make them pr_debug(). (checkpatch also found more
    > such cases)
    >
    > also, please add a CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_MEMTEST=y option so that
    > distributions can enable this by default in their debug kernels.
    >
    > i've applied your current version to get some testing, please send delta
    > patches against x86/latest.

    thanks. will submit delta patch.

    YH


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