Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c

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Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Date
18 Apr 2005 04:33:05
Subject
Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c
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20050418043305.GA35779@FreeBSD.org


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On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:45:02PM +0000, John Baldwin wrote:
> jhb 2005-04-15 21:45:02 UTC
>
> FreeBSD src repository
>
> Modified files:
> sys/vm vm_pageq.c
> Log:
> Add a vm.blacklist tunable which can hold a space or comma seperated list
> of physical addresses. The pages containing these physical addresses will
> not be added to the free list and thus will effectively be ignored by the
> VM system. This is mostly useful for the case when one knows of specific
> physical addresses that have bit errors (such as from a memtest run) so
> that one can blacklist the bad pages while waiting for the new sticks of
> RAM to arrive. The physical addresses of any ignored pages are listed in
> the message buffer as well.

Should not this list get populated automatically? :-)

./danfe


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