Re: three kernel patches for review
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:On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:23:31 -0700 (PDT)
:Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
:
:> memtest won't necessarily find the problem(s). If a memory
:> problem isn't due to a stuck bit (and most aren't), then it will
:> depend on a billion factors that no memory testing program can
:> ever test reliably. The only solution to bad memory is usually to
:> replace the stick or replace the computer. Sometimes you can
:> de-tune a computer (e.g. slow down the FSB, and a clock to the RAS
:> and CAS cycles, etc) to fix marginal memory.
:>
:> Another poster noted that the BIOS might report memory where there
:> is actually I/O. This is a reasonable basis for putting in *some*
:> sort of hack but I don't think that the VM page lists are the
:> right place for that sort of thing.
:
:OK. Can I at least add an ASSERT_IN_CRIT_SECTION() to vm_add_new_page()
:for now? (It had nothing to do with the bad RAM thing, it was just
:something I noticed in the comment...)
:
:-Chris
That routine is only called during boot and only from a single
place. We do not need a critical section assertion there.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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