From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 04:33:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id A424B16A4CF; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:33:05 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:33:05 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20050418043305.GA35779@FreeBSD.org> References: <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:33:05 -0000 On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:45:02PM +0000, John Baldwin wrote: > jhb 2005-04-15 21:45:02 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > sys/vm vm_pageq.c > Log: > Add a vm.blacklist tunable which can hold a space or comma seperated list > of physical addresses. The pages containing these physical addresses will > not be added to the free list and thus will effectively be ignored by the > VM system. This is mostly useful for the case when one 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? :-) ./danfe