Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755099AbYCYLBA (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:01:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753278AbYCYLAx (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:00:53 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:51957 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753273AbYCYLAx (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:00:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:00:40 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , kernel list Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram Message-ID: <20080325110040.GC3729@elte.hu> References: <200803202358.33722.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <20080321120313.GD25225@elte.hu> <86802c440803211704u4fb07074w934f32d2f95bf6a7@mail.gmail.com> <20080322120400.GE13264@elte.hu> <86802c440803220959r4515e2a0n6de2d8d201545a3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86802c440803220959r4515e2a0n6de2d8d201545a3@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0005] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 981 Lines: 30 * Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > > > > one structural observation: please make this unified functionality, > > > > so that 32-bit kernels can make use of it too. > > > > > > that will need to use PAE to switch 2G windows .... > > > > well, please try some non-PAE, checks-direct-mappings approach - if > > someone wants to extend it to the highmem bits i'm sure it will be > > done. > > OK, First need to move some early_res code from e820_64.c to e820_32.c yeah, please do that. > or we can start to merge them. anyone is working on that? not that i know of - feel free. Ingo -- 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/