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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM)
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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