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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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-How to deal with bad memory e.g. reported by memtest86+ ?
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-#########################################################
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There are three possibilities I know of:
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@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ This Howto is about number 3) .
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BadRAM
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######
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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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@@ -31,15 +33,19 @@ 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 kernel-parameters.txt for details):
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-memmap=<size>$<address>
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+Syntax to exclude a memory area (see kernel-parameters.txt for details)::
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+ memmap=<size>$<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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+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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-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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+ memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
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