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* marching through all physical memory in software
@ 2009-01-26 15:38 Chris Friesen
  2009-01-26 15:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
  2009-02-06  9:00 ` Andi Kleen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 24+ messages in thread
From: Chris Friesen @ 2009-01-26 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Someone is asking me about the feasability of "scrubbing" system memory 
by accessing each page and handling the ECC faults.

The range of PAGE_OFFSET to "high_memory" should get me all of the 
kernel memory area, but what about all the memory set aside for 
userspace (which may not be contiguous)?  Is there any straightforward 
way to march through this memory?

I suppose I'm looking for something like walk_page_range(), but for 
physical memory rather than virtual.

Thanks,

Chris

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2009-01-30 19:32 ` marching through all physical memory in software Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-30 20:20   ` Tim Small
2009-01-31  3:54     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-31 12:48       ` Tim Small
2009-01-31 13:43         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-01-31 21:27           ` Pavel Machek
2009-02-01  1:25             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-01-30 21:10   ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-02-02 18:29   ` Chris Friesen
2009-02-02 22:45     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-02-03 14:31       ` Chris Friesen
2009-02-03 22:25         ` Pavel Machek
2009-02-04 16:03           ` Chris Friesen
2009-02-04 16:47           ` Dave Jiang
2009-01-26 15:38 Chris Friesen
2009-01-26 15:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-27 18:29   ` Chris Friesen
2009-01-27 20:16     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-28 19:38       ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-30  9:05         ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-01-30  9:13           ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-30 13:00             ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-02-06  9:00 ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-07  3:03   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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