From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757937AbZBDQEW (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:04:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754989AbZBDQEM (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:04:12 -0500 Received: from zcars04e.nortel.com ([47.129.242.56]:34150 "EHLO zcars04e.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754949AbZBDQEL (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:04:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4989BC67.3090708@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:03:51 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, "Eric W. Biederman" , Doug Thompson , ncunningham-lkml@crca.org.au, Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, bluesmoke-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: marching through all physical memory in software References: <715599.77204.qm@web50111.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <49873B99.3070405@nortel.com> <37985.1233614746@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <4988555B.8010408@nortel.com> <20090203222501.GC2857@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20090203222501.GC2857@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Feb 2009 16:03:56.0798 (UTC) FILETIME=[2F1DC1E0:01C986E2] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > > > 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