Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:59:07 +0200 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) |
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:30:37AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 06/23/2011 08:37 AM, Stefan Assmann wrote: > > > > According to Rick's reply in this thread a damaged row in a DIMM can > > easily cause a few thousand entries in the e820 table because it doesn't > > handle patterns. So the question I'm asking is, is it acceptable to > > have an e820 table with thousands maybe ten-thousands of entries? > > I really have no idea of the implications, maybe somebody else can > > comment on that. > > > > Given that that is what actually ends up happening in the kernel at some > point anyway,
hwpoison can poison most pages without any lists. Read Stefan's original patch.
The only thing that needs list really is conflict handling with early allocations.
-Andi
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