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Revision 51a2301e719e42b370bbb258c7ef6a7e7590b390 authored by Mike Frysinger on 07 April 2009, 15:52:49 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 07 April 2009, 15:44:06 UTC 
KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE check for module
 
Depend on KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE being set to N rather than !Y, since it can
be built as a module.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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bad_memory.txt 
March 2008
Jan-Simon Moeller, dl9pf@gmx.de


How to deal with bad memory e.g. reported by memtest86+ ?
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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
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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
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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
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