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-How to deal with bad memory e.g. reported by memtest86+ ?
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-March 2008
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-Jan-Simon Moeller, dl9pf@gmx.de
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-There are three possibilities I know of:
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-1) Reinsert/swap the memory modules
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-2) Buy new modules (best!) or try to exchange the memory
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- if you have spare-parts
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-3) Use BadRAM or memmap
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-This Howto is about number 3) .
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-BadRAM
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-BadRAM is the actively developed and available as kernel-patch
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-here: http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
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-For more details see the BadRAM documentation.
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-memmap
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-memmap is already in the kernel and usable as kernel-parameter at
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-boot-time. Its syntax is slightly strange and you may need to
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-calculate the values by yourself!
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-Syntax to exclude a memory area (see admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst for details)::
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- memmap=<size>$<address>
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-Example: memtest86+ reported here errors at address 0x18691458, 0x18698424 and
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-some others. All had 0x1869xxxx in common, so I chose a pattern of
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-0x18690000,0xffff0000.
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-With the numbers of the example above::
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- memmap=64K$0x18690000
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-or::
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- memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
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