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SubjectRe: 2.2.13 oopsen (update)
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Alex Buell wrote:
> Your memory program did the trick, now I wonder if the memory test
> routines could be used by the kernel to map out bad memory, at least
> temporarily until I replace the memory (perhaps as a unmappable 4k page?)

I had been thinking of this exact mechanism for my linux-ecc kernel
driver.

If it finds bad bits in memory, it could malloc them in the driver and
never use them, so it will never be used by anything else.

-Dan


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