From: Victor Porton <porton@ex-code.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: New reliability technique
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:21:28 +0500 (YEKT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FCzMX-0000Ym-00@porton.narod.ru> (raw)
A minute ago I invented a new reliability enhancing technique.
In idle cycles (or periodically in expense of some performance) Linux can
calculate MD5 or CRC sums of _unused_ (free) memory areas and compare these
sums with previously calculated sums.
Additionally it can be done for allocated memory, if it will be write
protected before the first actual write. Moreover, all memory may be made
write-protected if it is not written e.g. more than a second. (When it
is written kernel would unlock it and allow to write, by a techniqie like
to how swap works.) If write-protected memory appears to be modified by
a check sum, this likewise indicates a bug.
If a sum is inequal, it would notice a bug in kernel or in hardware.
I suggest to add "Check free memory control sums" in config.
--
Victor Porton (porton@ex-code.com) - http://porton.ex-code.com
next reply other threads:[~2006-02-25 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-25 13:21 Victor Porton [this message]
2006-02-25 13:26 ` New reliability technique Jesper Juhl
2006-02-25 13:27 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-25 19:52 ` Avi Kivity
2006-02-25 19:56 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-25 22:44 ` Janos Farkas
2006-02-26 11:34 ` Victor Porton
2006-02-26 12:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-02-26 12:30 ` Nick Piggin
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