Re: marching through all physical memory in software

Chris Friesen
2009-02-02T18:30:25Z

Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Thinking about it. We only care about memory the kernel is using so the memory
> maps the BIOS supplies the kernel should be sufficient. We have weird corner
> cases like ACPI but not handling those in the first pass and getting
> something working should be fine.

Agreed.

The next question is who handles the conversion of the various different
arch-specific BIOS mappings to a standard format that we can feed to the
background "scrub" code. Is this something that belongs in the edac
memory controller code, or would it live in /arch/foo somewhere?

Chris