Re: 2.2.13 oopsen (update)

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 7 Nov 1999 12:56:55 +0000 (GMT)


On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Dan Hollis wrote:

> I had been thinking of this exact mechanism for my linux-ecc kernel
> driver.
>
> If it finds bad bits in memory, it could malloc them in the driver and
> never use them, so it will never be used by anything else.

What would be nicer is a generic memory testing module - one could insmod
it and run the tests. When it finds bad memory, it could alloc that bad
block out of existence.

Cheers,
Alex

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