On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:30:37AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 06/23/2011 08:37 AM, Stefan Assmann wrote: > > > > According to Rick's reply in this thread a damaged row in a DIMM can > > easily cause a few thousand entries in the e820 table because it doesn't > > handle patterns. So the question I'm asking is, is it acceptable to > > have an e820 table with thousands maybe ten-thousands of entries? > > I really have no idea of the implications, maybe somebody else can > > comment on that. > > > > Given that that is what actually ends up happening in the kernel at some > point anyway, hwpoison can poison most pages without any lists. Read Stefan's original patch. The only thing that needs list really is conflict handling with early allocations. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>