Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 17 Nov 1996 19:12:18 -0500 | From | Rob Hagopian <> | Subject | Re: Linux & ECC memory |
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>> 1) Couldn't this code determine the active process and remove the active >> memory pages from use? (although you'd definatly want this as an option... >> I see that some powersaving modes also generate an NMI!) > >The NMI may occur asynchronously to the causing process. If your L1 cache >or L2 cache is write back then the cache write back could occur seconds >after (in theory even longer) the write to the bad address.
Mmmm... yes, that's right... oh well, I sort of reconsidered this idea later, the kernel bloat would probably be unjustified anyways. <sigh>
Now for the P6 and/or ECC memory where there's more reporting as to where the memory fault occurred, this might be "a good thing". -Rob
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