From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com
Cc: yhlu.kernel.send@gmail.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:48:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080322134814.7258ff0c@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803202358.33722.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:58:33 -0700
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> do simple memtest after init_memory_mapping
>
> use find_e820_area_size to find all ram range that is not reserved.
be careful, there's some special memory that e820 right now says is not reserved,
but still has bios data (the first 4Kb of memory come to mind)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-22 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 6:58 Yinghai Lu
2008-03-21 12:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 13:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-21 14:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-22 5:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-03-22 6:48 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-21 19:08 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-21 19:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-21 20:09 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-21 21:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-21 21:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-22 0:04 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-22 12:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-22 16:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-25 11:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 22:49 ` Sami Farin
2008-03-22 20:48 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-03-22 21:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-22 21:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-22 21:21 ` Yinghai Lu
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