Re: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:08 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>  >
>>  > very nice patch! I always thought that this was the proper way to do
>>  > memtest - and we could in fact also do something like this after SMP
>>  > bringup, and hit the memory bus via multiple CPUs. [that will need a
>>  > different enumeration though than e820 maps]
>>  >
>>  > one structural observation: please make this unified functionality, so
>>  > that 32-bit kernels can make use of it too.
>>  >
>>
>>  Indeed.  Of course, it would also be nice if distros shipped
>>  bootloader-invoked prekernel test software, like memtest86+, by default.
> 
> the current memtest86 is running in 32 bit mode, and only support 64G ram.
> 
> I tried to expand that a bit, to support 1024g, but it only works on
> some machine.
> could be stack provide is not big enough?
> 

Wonder how hard it would be to make it run 64 bits...

	-hpa