Re: [PATCH] Machine Check Architecture on amd64

On Jul 2, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Takeharu KATO wrote:

> Hi, Souhlal
>
>> I would appreciate it if someone would try this, especially if you  
>> have Intel machines with bad RAM.
>> Comments are welcome.
>
> Apparently, the patch does not have memory scrub facility.
> Do you have a plan to implement the memory scrub facility like  
> solaris does?
>
> P.S. In fact, I was also trying to implement the MCE facility, so I  
> am interesting to
> your patch.

While I don't know about Intel CPUs, K8 CPUs from AMD have a hardware  
DRAM/data cache scrubber, so I didn't bother implementing it, and I  
don't really plan to, at least in the near future. It should,  
however, be pretty easy to implement.

-- Suleiman