Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:14:20 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) |
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On 06/24/2011 09:56 AM, Rick van Rein wrote: > Hello, > >> Does it scale? [...] Perhaps we may end up with a composite solution. > > If I had my way, there would be an extension to the e820 format to allow > the BadRAM patterns to be specified. Since the extension with bad page > information is specific to boot loader interaction, this would work in > exactly those cases that are covered by the current situation. >
Yes, a different table might be worthwhile.
Another question, however, is what does this look like at runtime. In particular, if I'm not mistaken hwpoison will create struct pages for these non-memory pages, which seems undesirable...
-hpa
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