Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:48:01 -0700 | | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram | |
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:29:19PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * 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.)
>
> It may even make sense to merge in the full memtest86. The code is small
> (both source and binary) and IIRC it shares a lot of init code with x86.
> The remaining problem would then be how to maintain its tests up do date.
memtester is another choice, and it is more easy to be merged.
YH
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