linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM)

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Message-ID: <20110622202814.GK3263@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:28:14 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...nic.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tony.luck@...el.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	rick@...rein.org, rdunlap@...otime.net,
	Nancy Yuen <yuenn@...gle.com>,
	Michael Ditto <mditto@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM)

> The fully backward compatible way is "memmap=<address>$<length>".

This doesn't really work for patterns. badmem is about making patterns/
strides/etc.  work as far as I understand. Those are very common
with modern interleaving schemes.

Please read the original patchkit and its documentation.

-Andi
-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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