From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Stefan Assmann <sassmann@kpanic.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tony.luck@intel.com, mingo@elte.hu, rick@vanrein.org,
rdunlap@xenotime.net, Nancy Yuen <yuenn@google.com>,
Michael Ditto <mditto@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:25:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E024FC5.6020707@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110622191558.GI3263@one.firstfloor.org>
On 06/22/2011 12:15 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:05:07PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 06/22/2011 11:56 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>
>>> You'll always have multiple ways. Whatever magic you come up for
>>> the google BIOS or for EFI won't help the majority of users with
>>> old crufty legacy BIOS.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think this has anything to do with this.
>
> Please elaborate.
>
> How would you pass the bad page information instead in a fully backwards
> compatible way?
>
Depends on what you mean with "fully backward compatible". In some ways
this is a nonsense statement since if we create anything new older
kernels will not run.
However, the other discussions in this thread have been about injecting
data in kernel-specific data structures and thus aren't dependent on the
firmware layer used.
The fully backward compatible way is "memmap=<address>$<length>".
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-22 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-22 11:18 [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) Stefan Assmann
2011-06-22 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Add string parsing function get_next_ulong Stefan Assmann
2011-06-22 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) Stefan Assmann
2011-06-22 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Add documentation and credits for BadRAM Stefan Assmann
2011-06-22 18:00 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) Andrew Morton
2011-06-22 18:06 ` Josh Boyer
2011-06-22 18:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-22 18:11 ` Nancy Yuen
2011-06-22 18:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-22 19:01 ` Nancy Yuen
2011-06-22 19:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-22 18:24 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-22 18:38 ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-22 18:56 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-22 19:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-22 19:15 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-22 20:25 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-06-22 20:28 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-22 19:46 ` [PATCH] x86: e820: Eliminate bubble sort from sanitize_e820_map Mike Ditto
2011-06-22 20:18 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) Stefan Assmann
2011-06-23 10:33 ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-23 10:49 ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-23 10:10 ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-22 18:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-22 20:30 ` Stefan Assmann
2011-06-22 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-23 13:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-23 14:08 ` Stefan Assmann
2011-06-23 14:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-23 15:37 ` Stefan Assmann
2011-06-23 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-24 0:59 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-23 17:00 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-23 17:12 ` Luck, Tony
2011-06-24 1:03 ` Craig Bergstrom
2011-06-24 1:08 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-24 1:22 ` Craig Bergstrom
2011-06-24 8:05 ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-24 14:34 ` Craig Bergstrom
2011-06-24 16:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-24 16:40 ` Luck, Tony
2011-06-24 16:56 ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-24 17:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <fa.fHPNPTsllvyE/7DxrKwiwgVbVww@ifi.uio.no>
2011-06-24 21:10 ` Shane Nay
2011-06-28 2:33 ` Craig Bergstrom
2011-06-29 8:08 ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-29 15:28 ` craig lkml
2011-06-29 16:06 ` Craig Bergstrom
2011-06-29 21:24 ` Tony Luck
2011-06-30 14:32 ` Jody Belka
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-21 9:23 Stefan Assmann
2011-06-21 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-22 11:11 ` Stefan Assmann
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