Re: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram

["Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:29:19PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>  >
>  > * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > >> very nice patch! I always thought that this was the proper way to do
>  > >> memtest - and we could in fact also do something like this after SMP
>  > >> bringup, and hit the memory bus via multiple CPUs. [that will need a
>  > >> different enumeration though than e820 maps]
>  > >>
>  > >> one structural observation: please make this unified functionality,
>  > >> so that 32-bit kernels can make use of it too.
>  > >>
>  > >
>  > > Indeed.  Of course, it would also be nice if distros shipped
>  > > bootloader-invoked prekernel test software, like memtest86+, by
>  > > default.
>  >
>  > some do (Fedora for example), but it's still a bit quirky for users to
>  > invoke and it would be nice to see those results in the kernel log as
>  > well and flag possibly flaky systems that way. (add a taint bit, etc.,
>  > etc.)
>
>  It may even make sense to merge in the full memtest86. The code is small
>  (both source and binary) and IIRC it shares a lot of init code with x86.
>  The remaining problem would then be how to maintain its tests up do date.

memtester is another choice, and it is more easy to be merged.

YH