Re: [PATCH] x86_64: early memtest to find bad ram

Ingo Molnar wrote:

very nice patch! I always thought that this was the proper way to do memtest - and we could in fact also do something like this after SMP bringup, and hit the memory bus via multiple CPUs. [that will need a different enumeration though than e820 maps]

one structural observation: please make this unified functionality, so that 32-bit kernels can make use of it too.


Indeed. Of course, it would also be nice if distros shipped bootloader-invoked prekernel test software, like memtest86+, by default.

-hpa
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