Re: marching through all physical memory in software

Chris Friesen
2009-02-04T16:04:22Z

Pavel Machek wrote:

>>I don't see anything in the name of EDAC that implies hardware only...a
>>software memory scrub could be considered "error detection and
>>correction". Might have to update the config help text though.
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> Software memory scrub would no longer be a "driver" :-). So it should
> go into kernel/scrub or mm/scrub or maybe mm/edac or something.

True enough. In that case, something under "mm" makes more sense to me
than something under "kernel".

Chris