From 849369d6c66d3054688672f97d31fceb8e8230fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: root Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 04:40:36 +0000 Subject: initial_commit --- Documentation/bad_memory.txt | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/bad_memory.txt (limited to 'Documentation/bad_memory.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/bad_memory.txt b/Documentation/bad_memory.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..df841621 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/bad_memory.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +March 2008 +Jan-Simon Moeller, dl9pf@gmx.de + + +How to deal with bad memory e.g. reported by memtest86+ ? +######################################################### + +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=$
+ +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 + -- cgit v1.2.3