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

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Message-ID: <4989BC67.3090708@nortel.com>
Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:03:51 -0600
From:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
CC:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>, ncunningham-lkml@...a.org.au,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	bluesmoke-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: marching through all physical memory in software

Pavel Machek wrote:

>>I don't see anything in the name of EDAC that implies hardware only...a  
>>software memory scrub could be considered "error detection and  
>>correction".  Might have to update the config help text though.
> 
> 
> Software memory scrub would no longer be a "driver" :-). So it should
> go into kernel/scrub or mm/scrub or maybe mm/edac or something.

True enough.  In that case, something under "mm" makes more sense to me 
than something under "kernel".

Chris
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