From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: marching through all physical memory in software
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:29:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497F5289.404@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090126075957.69b64a2e@infradead.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:38:13 -0600
> "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
>
>> Someone is asking me about the feasability of "scrubbing" system
>> memory by accessing each page and handling the ECC faults.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I would suggest that you look at the "edac" subsystem, which tries to
> do exactly this....
Looking at the current -git code, there appears to be an option for
memory controllers to do this (the set_sdram_scrub_rate() routine), but
there don't appear to be any controllers that can actually do it.
edac appears to currently be able to scrub the specific page where the
fault occurred. This is a useful building block, but doesn't provide
the ability to march through all of physical memory.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 15:38 marching through all physical memory in software Chris Friesen
2009-01-26 15:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-27 18:29 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2009-01-27 20:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-27 20:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-28 19:38 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-28 19:38 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-30 9:05 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-01-30 9:05 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-01-30 9:13 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-30 9:13 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-30 13:00 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-01-30 13:00 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-03-05 22:16 ` [Patch] mm tracepoints Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 2:11 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-06 2:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-06 11:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 12:33 ` Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 13:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 16:57 ` Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 17:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 17:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-06 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 17:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-06 18:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 18:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-06 18:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 20:01 ` Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 19:06 ` Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 21:53 ` Chris Friesen
2009-03-06 19:22 ` Larry Woodman
2009-03-25 18:09 ` Latest mm tracepoints patch merged to your tip tree Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 21:16 ` [Patch] mm tracepoints Andrew Morton
2009-03-06 21:16 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-06 9:00 ` marching through all physical memory in software Andi Kleen
2009-02-07 3:03 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
[not found] <715599.77204.qm@web50111.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
2009-01-30 19:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-30 19:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-30 20:20 ` Tim Small
2009-01-30 20:20 ` Tim Small
2009-01-31 3:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-31 3:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-31 12:48 ` Tim Small
2009-01-31 12:48 ` Tim Small
2009-01-31 13:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-01-31 13:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-01-31 21:27 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-31 21:27 ` Pavel Machek
2009-02-01 1:25 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-02-01 1:25 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-01-30 21:10 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-01-30 21:10 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-02-02 18:29 ` Chris Friesen
2009-02-02 18:29 ` Chris Friesen
2009-02-02 22:45 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-02-03 14:31 ` Chris Friesen
2009-02-03 14:31 ` Chris Friesen
2009-02-03 22:25 ` Pavel Machek
2009-02-03 22:25 ` Pavel Machek
2009-02-04 16:03 ` Chris Friesen
2009-02-04 16:03 ` Chris Friesen
2009-02-04 16:47 ` Dave Jiang
2009-02-04 16:47 ` Dave Jiang
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