I was thinking that by the time userspace is ready, the memory that can be tested will be less.
-----Original Message----- From: Pavel Machek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:16 PM To: Richard D Cc: 'Matthew Bloch'; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Testing RAM from userspace / question about memmap= arguments On Sat 2007-12-22 13:42:47, Richard D wrote: > Cant you, modify bootmem allocator to test with memtest patterns and then > use kexec (as Pavel suggested) to test the one where kernel was sitting > earlier? I do not think you need to modify anything in kernel. Just use /dev/mem to test areas that kernel doesn't see, then kexec into place you already tested, and test the rest. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/