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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: single bit flip detector.
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:14:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154470467.15540.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060801184451.GP22240@redhat.com>

Ar Maw, 2006-08-01 am 14:44 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
> +		case POISON_FREE ^ 0x01:
> +		case POISON_FREE ^ 0x02:
> +		case POISON_FREE ^ 0x04:
> +		case POISON_FREE ^ 0x08:
> +		case POISON_FREE ^ 0x10:
> +		case POISON_FREE ^ 0x20:
> +		case POISON_FREE ^ 0x40:
> +		case POISON_FREE ^ 0x80:
> +			printk (KERN_ERR "Single bit error detected. Possibly bad RAM.\n");
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> +			printk (KERN_ERR "Run memtest86 or other memory test tool.\n");
> +#endif
> +			return;

Gack .. NAK

#1: Do we want memtest86 or memtest86+ ?
#2: The check is horrible and there is an elegant implementation for
single bit.

	errors = value ^ expected;
	if (errors && !(errors & (errors - 1)))
		printk(KERN_ERR "Single bit error detected....");


Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-01 18:44 single bit flip detector Dave Jones
2006-08-01 20:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-08-01 22:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-08-01 22:30   ` Dave Jones
2006-08-01 22:36     ` Dave Jones
2006-08-01 23:00       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-01 23:16         ` Dave Jones
2006-08-01 23:27           ` Dave Jones
2006-08-01 23:28           ` Andreas Schwab
2006-08-01 23:51             ` Dave Jones
2006-08-02  0:16               ` Dave Jones
2006-08-02  6:20                 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2006-08-02  7:08                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-06 11:05                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-08-02 15:24                 ` Patrick McLean
2006-08-02 16:12                   ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-04 21:19                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 22:06                   ` Dave Jones
2006-08-04 22:25                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 22:28                       ` Dave Jones
2006-08-02  7:08         ` Jan Engelhardt

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