> > Frank Gockel (gockel@sent13.uni-duisburg.de) mailed a memtest patch to
> > linux-kernel in July 1998 to test memory at boot up. One big advantage
> > of doing the test in kernel is that he marks faulty pages as reserved
> > to stop the kernel using them. Waiting until init is running can be
> > too late, the page might already be in use.
>
> marking pages fault so that it's not used IMHO is a bad idea. if memory is
> at fault, report it and stop.
that might be another (compile time?) option as a result of the test.
but marking bad pages is still _much_ better than not detecting them at all...
Harald
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