From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: marching through all physical memory in software
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:03:46 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090207030346.GB5587@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bptgvt1t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "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)
Is that true for the 82875, and other common desktop chipsets that DO
support ECC ram?
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-07 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 15:38 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 ` marching through all physical memory in software Andi Kleen
2009-02-07 3:03 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
[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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