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Re: [Xen-devel] bad memory and xen

To: Jody Belka <lists-xen@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] bad memory and xen
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 23:12:13 +0100
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If it's in the lowest 64MB of memory then it would be tricky, as Xen
has a fairly rigid memory map in that space during boot. Above 64MB we
could add support for resreving bad memory pages so they can't be
allocated for use.

 -- Keir

> I've just discovered a couple of bytes of bad memory on one of my systems
> using memtest86+. now, with a plain linux installation i could use BadRAM
> to easily work around the issue. i assume, however, that with xen it's not
> the dom0 that does physical memory allocation, but xen itself, so is there
> any chance of BadRAM-like functionallity being added to xen?
> 
> -- 
> Jody Belka
> knew (at) pimb (dot) org
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