Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Nov 1999 03:09:39 -0800 (PST) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.13 oopsen (update) |
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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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