Re: New reliability technique

[Pekka Enberg]

On 2/26/06, Victor Porton <porton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Isn't it better to double check (especially after such risky things as
> e.g. software suspend)?
>
> We need to check not only for damaged hardware, but also for
> kernel/modules bugs. For this ECC and cache reliability is useless.

What kernel bugs do you want to catch with double-checking free
memory? For use-after-free, we already have slab poisoning.

                                    Pekka
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