From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Richard D <richard@embunus.com>
Cc: "'Matthew Bloch'" <matthew@bytemark.co.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Testing RAM from userspace / question about memmap= arguments
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:46:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071222134612.GA4098@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c84472$74b245e0$5e16d1a0$@com>
On Sat 2007-12-22 13:42:47, Richard D wrote:
> Cant you, modify bootmem allocator to test with memtest patterns and then
> use kexec (as Pavel suggested) to test the one where kernel was sitting
> earlier?
I do not think you need to modify anything in kernel. Just use
/dev/mem to test areas that kernel doesn't see, then kexec into place
you already tested, and test the rest.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-22 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-18 17:06 Testing RAM from userspace / question about memmap= arguments Matthew Bloch
2007-12-20 12:33 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-20 14:17 ` Matthew Bloch
2007-12-21 12:58 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-22 8:12 ` Richard D
2007-12-22 13:46 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-12-22 15:30 ` Richard D
2007-12-22 18:43 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-22 16:06 ` David Newall
2007-12-22 18:47 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-22 20:36 ` David Newall
2007-12-22 20:54 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-23 7:35 ` David Newall
2007-12-23 11:17 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-22 20:48 ` Matthew Bloch
2007-12-22 20:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-25 23:09 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-26 10:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-26 20:37 ` Maxim Levitsky
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2007-12-20 17:01 Siva Prasad
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