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Message-ID: <46EEC368.1040308@goop.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:11:52 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To: David Madore <david.madore@....fr>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch/option to wipe memory at boot?
David Madore wrote:
> Is there a patch or a boot option or something which wipes all
> available (physical) RAM at boot (or better, fills it with a fixed
> signature like 0xdeadbeef)? I'm getting phony ECC errors and I'd like
> to test whether they go away when the RAM is properly initialized.
> Also, I'd like to know exactly which parts of RAM are being used and
> which are untouched since boot (hence the 0xdeadbeef signature).
>
> If this patch/option doesn't exist, can anyone give me a hint as to
> where and how it would be best to add this? (I'm afraid I'm very
> ignorant as to how Linux sets up its RAM mapping.) I'm concerned
> about x86 and x86_64.
>
> PS: I'm not finicky: it's all right if a couple of megabytes at the
> bottom of RAM are not scrubbed (I'm more interested about the top
> gigabyte-or-so), especially if they're guaranteed to be used by the
> kernel.
>
Boot memtest86 for a little while before booting the kernel? And if you
haven't already run it for a while, then that would be your first step
anyway.
J
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