Re: single bit flip detector.

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Dave Jones <[email protected]> writes:

> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 21ba060..39f1183 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -1638,10 +1638,29 @@ static void poison_obj(struct kmem_cache
>  static void dump_line(char *data, int offset, int limit)
>  {
>  	int i;
> +	unsigned char total = 0, bad_count = 0, errors = 0;

No need to initialize errors here.

>  	printk(KERN_ERR "%03x:", offset);
> -	for (i = 0; i < limit; i++)
> +	for (i = 0; i < limit; i++) {
> +		if (data[offset + i] != POISON_FREE) {
> +			total += data[offset + i];
> +			bad_count++;
> +		}
>  		printk(" %02x", (unsigned char)data[offset + i]);
> +	}
>  	printk("\n");
> +
> +	if (bad_count == 1) {
> +		errors = total ^ POISON_FREE;
> +		if (errors && !(errors & (errors-1))) {
> +			printk (KERN_ERR "Single bit error detected. Probably bad RAM.\n");
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> +			printk (KERN_ERR "Run memtest86+ or similar memory test tool.\n");
> +#else
> +			printk (KERN_ERR "Run a memory test tool.\n");
> +#endif
> +			return;

Useless return.

Andreas.

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