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    SubjectRe: 2.2.13 oopsen (update)
    On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Alex Buell wrote:
    > On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Dan Hollis wrote:
    > > 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.
    > What would be nicer is a generic memory testing module - one could insmod
    > it and run the tests. When it finds bad memory, it could alloc that bad
    > block out of existence.

    Well if you like stomping your cpu caches all the time... ;)

    Ingo Molnar wrote some 'eccd' around 1997. It did checksum of all readonly
    pages in memory, then constantly checked them with a kernel task in the
    background when system was idle.

    Maybe someone wants to modify this to handle all memory. I have Ingo's
    eccd if anyone wants it (for kernel 2.0.x).

    -Dan


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