Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 1999 03:04:42 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Frequent oops in shrink_mmap |
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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, David desJardins wrote:
>(6 machines) have %eax=40000000. Is this consistent with the single-bit >memory error, or not? If it's purely a hardware problem, should I be
It is.
>and other memory errors might remain undetected, and that the great >majority of entries will be zero so that all of the errors are likely to >occur on those pages?
If a bit change happens in the lower bits or a valid address you are going to generate silenty some more mm corruption and the kernel will become unstable in other ways.
Andrea
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