From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 21:41:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB56D16A4CE; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:41:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from daintree.corp.yahoo.com (daintree.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0F843D41; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:41:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: by daintree.corp.yahoo.com (Postfix, from userid 2154) id 753C6197A8; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:41:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Wemm To: "Daniel O'Connor" Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:41:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050418043305.GA35779@FreeBSD.org> <200504181451.00926.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200504181451.00926.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504181441.37979.peter@wemm.org> cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: Alexey Dokuchaev cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: John Baldwin cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:41:42 -0000 On Sunday 17 April 2005 10:21 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:03, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > knows of specific physical addresses that have bit errors (such > > > as from a memtest run) so that one can blacklist the bad pages > > > while waiting for the new sticks of RAM to arrive. The physical > > > addresses of any ignored pages are listed in the message buffer > > > as well. > > > > Should not this list get populated automatically? :-) > > You could integrate Memtest86+ into the loader and do a run before > booting the kernel 8-) What a brilliant idea! John ran memtest86 at usenix for something like 40 minutes to find this problem.... I guess this would encourage people to write non-crashing kernel code :-) -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5