linux-kernel - Re: marching through all physical memory in software

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Message-ID: <20090126075957.69b64a2e@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:59:57 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: marching through all physical memory in software

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:38:13 -0600
"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com> 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....



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