From d078a815196bc4b3d8fe728a0dbd83c07b928a47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:24:12 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/bad_memory.txt: convert it to ReST markup - promote the section level of the document name; - add/remove spaces/new lines where needed to format the output; - use quote blocks. - add it to the user book. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/bad_memory.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/bad_memory.txt b/Documentation/bad_memory.txt index df8416213202..5cac93e27a97 100644 --- a/Documentation/bad_memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/bad_memory.txt @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ +How to deal with bad memory e.g. reported by memtest86+ ? +========================================================= + 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: @@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ This Howto is about number 3) . BadRAM ###### + BadRAM is the actively developed and available as kernel-patch here: http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ @@ -31,15 +33,19 @@ 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=$
+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. +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:: -With the numbers of the example above: -memmap=64K$0x18690000 - or -memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 + memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 -- 2.20.1