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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-09-21 09:51:11 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -0200 |
| commit | 9d85025b0418163fae079c9ba8f8445212de8568 (patch) | |
| tree | 4629e2dedf4a9ed45a6855c129101f9b52138372 /Documentation/bad_memory.txt | |
| parent | 186128f75392f8478ad1b32a675627d738881ca4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9d85025b0418163fae079c9ba8f8445212de8568.tar.bz2 | |
docs-rst: create an user's manual book
Place README, REPORTING-BUGS, SecurityBugs and kernel-parameters
on an user's manual book.
As we'll be numbering the user's manual, remove the manual
numbering from SecurityBugs.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/bad_memory.txt b/Documentation/bad_memory.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5cac93e27a97..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/bad_memory.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -How to deal with bad memory e.g. reported by memtest86+ ? -========================================================= - -March 2008 -Jan-Simon Moeller, dl9pf@gmx.de - - - -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=<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 - |