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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-10-26 16:20:27 -0600 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-10-27 16:36:26 -0600 |
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docs: Get rid of the badRAM guide
The last release of this tool was for 2.6.28; it's hard to see how it has
any relevance to current kernels.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst deleted file mode 100644 index a5c0e25e496f..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bad-memory.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +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 admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 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 diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst index 2ce2bf02824b..d737ae71efc6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst @@ -58,5 +58,4 @@ configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking. binfmt-misc mono java - bad-memory basic-profiling |
