On 5/5/20 12:03 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 08:48:16AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
Usually a 64-bit system refers to the width of a pointer. Here, it's
referring to the width of the memory system, which is rather confusing.
How about "In the above example" instead of "So, on 64 bit systems".
Yes, that should not talk about 64-bit systems but about the length of
the word the memory controller uses to create the ECC check bits out of.
That whole doc needs checking/fixing.
I am not knowledgeable enough to check/fix the whole document. This
patch is motivated primarily by the incorrect "74 bits" total width that
I saw. I will send a v2 to make the suggested edit. I will leave it to
you to do the full document check.
Cheers,
Longman
