Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S942268AbXHJVK5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:10:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760490AbXHJVKo (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:10:44 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:55389 "EHLO fmmailgate01.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756416AbXHJVKn (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:10:43 -0400 Message-ID: <000a01c7db93$c75b66c0$eeeea8c0@aldipc> From: "roland" To: Subject: Software based ECC ? Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:16:45 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+ubqfg54NL8Sr47Nzro+IH+mJVUruy9SP3S0Gl c+fuGUa1MV0A/D60dUZ0jT220Qt+Nv3+ywBxjpbk7xdNknL9wE 4C1jXi86Y= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 32 Hello ! since ECC (speaking in terms of ram/memory) is some widespread hardware technology within server/enterprise computing for protection of memory failure, i wonder: Can`t this be done in software, too ? I didn`t find a referenc on this list, but i found an interesting paper i'd like to share at: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/softecc:ddopson-meng/softecc_ddopson-meng.pdf "SoftECC : A System for Software Memory Integrity Checking" Is it possible to implement something like this within the Linux virtual memory subsystem ? If it can be done, wouldn`t this be a great feature ? regards Roland K. system engineer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/