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Diffstat (limited to 'debian/patches/features/x86/x86-memtest-WARN-if-bad-RAM-found.patch')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/patches/features/x86/x86-memtest-WARN-if-bad-RAM-found.patch | 28 |
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diff --git a/debian/patches/features/x86/x86-memtest-WARN-if-bad-RAM-found.patch b/debian/patches/features/x86/x86-memtest-WARN-if-bad-RAM-found.patch new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7a7952003 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/patches/features/x86/x86-memtest-WARN-if-bad-RAM-found.patch @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> +Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 04:00:58 +0000 +Subject: x86: memtest: WARN if bad RAM found +Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/613321 +Forwarded: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1286471 + +Since this is not a particularly thorough test, if we find any bad +bits of RAM then there is a fair chance that there are other bad bits +we fail to detect. + +Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> +--- + mm/memtest.c | 2 ++ + 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) + +--- a/mm/memtest.c ++++ b/mm/memtest.c +@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ static u64 patterns[] __initdata = { + + static void __init reserve_bad_mem(u64 pattern, phys_addr_t start_bad, phys_addr_t end_bad) + { ++#ifdef CONFIG_X86 ++ WARN_ONCE(1, "Bad RAM detected. Use memtest86+ to perform a thorough test\n" ++ "and the memmap= parameter to reserve the bad areas."); ++#endif + pr_info(" %016llx bad mem addr %pa - %pa reserved\n", + cpu_to_be64(pattern), &start_bad, &end_bad); + memblock_reserve(start_bad, end_bad - start_bad); |