Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752149AbZAZQAM (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:00:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751470AbZAZP77 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:59:59 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:57510 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751310AbZAZP77 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:59:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:59:57 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Chris Friesen" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: marching through all physical memory in software Message-ID: <20090126075957.69b64a2e@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <497DD8E5.1040305@nortel.com> References: <497DD8E5.1040305@nortel.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 23 On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:38:13 -0600 "Chris Friesen" wrote: > Someone is asking me about the feasability of "scrubbing" system > memory by accessing each page and handling the ECC faults. > Hi, I would suggest that you look at the "edac" subsystem, which tries to do exactly this.... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/