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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: marching through all physical memory in software
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:00:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bptgvt1t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497DD8E5.1040305@nortel.com> (Chris Friesen's message of "Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:38:13 -0600")

"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> writes:

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

I would expect any ECC RAM capable memory controller designed 
in the last 10-15 years to be able to do this on its own without
software intervention. Is that not true? It is certainly
on x86 (although you sometimes have to change BIOS options)

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-06  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-26 15:38 marching through all physical memory in software 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
2009-03-05 22:16           ` [Patch] mm tracepoints Larry Woodman
2009-03-06  2:11             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-06  2:26               ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-06 11:04                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 12:33                   ` Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 13:55                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 16:57                       ` Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 17:10                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 17:38                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-06 17:46                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 17:56                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-06 18:01                               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 18:20                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-06 18:24                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-06 20:01                                 ` Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 19:06                             ` Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 21:53                             ` Chris Friesen
2009-03-06 19:22                           ` Larry Woodman
2009-03-25 18:09                         ` Latest mm tracepoints patch merged to your tip tree Larry Woodman
2009-03-06 21:16             ` [Patch] mm tracepoints Andrew Morton
2009-02-06  9:00 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-02-07  3:03   ` marching through all physical memory in software Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
     [not found] <715599.77204.qm@web50111.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
2009-01-30 19:32 ` 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

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