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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-09-21 14:51:11 +0200 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-10-24 12:12:35 +0200 |
commit | 9d85025b0418163fae079c9ba8f8445212de8568 (patch) | |
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parent | docs-rst: add documents to development-process (diff) | |
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docs-rst: create an user's manual book
Place README, REPORTING-BUGS, SecurityBugs and kernel-parameters
on an user's manual book.
As we'll be numbering the user's manual, remove the manual
numbering from SecurityBugs.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..017fc86430c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +How to deal with bad memory e.g. reported by memtest86+ ? +========================================================= + +March 2008 +Jan-Simon Moeller, dl9pf@gmx.de + + + +There are three possibilities I know of: + +1) Reinsert/swap the memory modules + +2) Buy new modules (best!) or try to exchange the memory + if you have spare-parts + +3) Use BadRAM or memmap + +This Howto is about number 3) . + + +BadRAM +###### + +BadRAM is the actively developed and available as kernel-patch +here: http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ + +For more details see the BadRAM documentation. + +memmap +###### + +memmap is already in the kernel and usable as kernel-parameter at +boot-time. Its syntax is slightly strange and you may need to +calculate the values by yourself! + +Syntax to exclude a memory area (see kernel-parameters.txt for details):: + + memmap=<size>$<address> + +Example: memtest86+ reported here errors at address 0x18691458, 0x18698424 and +some others. All had 0x1869xxxx in common, so I chose a pattern of +0x18690000,0xffff0000. + +With the numbers of the example above:: + + memmap=64K$0x18690000 + +or:: + + memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 |