Re: New reliability technique

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Pekka Enberg wrote:
On 2/26/06, Victor Porton <[email protected]> wrote:

Isn't it better to double check (especially after such risky things as
e.g. software suspend)?

We need to check not only for damaged hardware, but also for
kernel/modules bugs. For this ECC and cache reliability is useless.


What kernel bugs do you want to catch with double-checking free
memory? For use-after-free, we already have slab poisoning.


And for !slab, we unmap kernel virtual addresses with page debugging,
which seems like a better solution.

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