Re:ECC matters
by wtallis on Sunday January 03, 2021 @07:30PM
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> What would be interesting is if userspace could mark a region of memory as recomputable.
I believe there's already some support for things like this, but intended as a mechanism to gracefully handle memory pressure rather than corruption. Apple has a Purgeable Memory mechanism, but handled through higher-level interfaces rather than something like madvise().
I believe there's already some support for things like this, but intended as a mechanism to gracefully handle memory pressure rather than corruption. Apple has a Purgeable Memory mechanism, but handled through higher-level interfaces rather than something like madvise().