Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:57:18 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c Message-ID: <200504161357.18942.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org>
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--nextPart1275171.6MatauH9fG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:15, John Baldwin wrote: > Add a vm.blacklist tunable which can hold a space or comma seperated li= st > 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. Nice work :) =46inally, a VM coder got some bad RAM ;) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1275171.6MatauH9fG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCYJQm5ZPcIHs/zowRAlppAKCnWUZfH3lWBWxs95RnzSA18Dt3ugCgm3MG YuTyLhsVgHwDXToKJIez3XU= =+Nkx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1275171.6MatauH9fG--
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