Revision 85746e429f8e5dc8c5c0beadc0f099cb1feab93e authored by Linus Torvalds on 07 July 2011, 20:16:21 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 07 July 2011, 20:16:21 UTC
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (31 commits)
sctp: fix missing send up SCTP_SENDER_DRY_EVENT when subscribe it
net: refine {udp|tcp|sctp}_mem limits
vmxnet3: round down # of queues to power of two
net: sh_eth: fix the parameter for the ETHER of SH7757
net: sh_eth: fix cannot work half-duplex mode
net: vlan: enable soft features regardless of underlying device
vmxnet3: fix starving rx ring whenoc_skb kb fails
bridge: Always flood broadcast packets
greth: greth_set_mac_add would corrupt the MAC address.
net: bind() fix error return on wrong address family
natsemi: silence dma-debug warnings
net: 8139too: Initial necessary vlan_features to support vlan
Fix call trace when interrupts are disabled while sleeping function kzalloc is called
qlge:Version change to v1.00.00.29
qlge: Fix printk priority so chip fatal errors are always reported.
qlge:Fix crash caused by mailbox execution on wedged chip.
xfrm4: Don't call icmp_send on local error
ipv4: Don't use ufo handling on later transformed packets
xfrm: Remove family arg from xfrm_bundle_ok
ipv6: Don't put artificial limit on routing table size.
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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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