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    SubjectRe: DRAM unreliable under specific access patern
    On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:23 AM, One Thousand Gnomes
    <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
    >> In the meantime, I created test that actually uses physical memory,
    >> 8MB apart, as described in some footnote. It is attached. It should
    >> work, but it needs boot with specific config options and specific
    >> kernel parameters.
    >
    > Why not just use hugepages. You know the alignment guarantees for 1GB
    > pages and that means you don't even need to be root
    >
    > In fact - should we be disabling 1GB huge page support by default at this
    > point, at least on non ECC boxes ?

    Can you actually damage anyone else's data using a 1 GB hugepage?

    --Andy

    >
    > Alan



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    Andy Lutomirski
    AMA Capital Management, LLC


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