linux-kernel - Re: EDAC: Is it possible to calculate which piece of memory is bad?

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Date:	Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:05:44 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EDAC: Is it possible to calculate which piece of memory is bad?

From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 09:40:38AM -0400

> Hello,
> 
> I see the following errors:
> 
> EDAC MC0: CE page 0x8abba, offset 0xa10, grain 8, syndrome 0x4758, row 0, channel 0, label "": k8_edac

It looks like it is the first DIMM on your mainboard, i.e., whichever
gets mapped to channel 0 of the DCT.

Sigh, someday we'll have a better mapping, hopefully, ... :|

> EDAC MC0: CE - no information available: k8_edac Error Overflow set
> EDAC k8 MC0: extended error code: ECC chipkill x4 error
> EDAC k8 MC0: general bus error: participating processor(local node origin), time-out(no timeout) memory transaction type(generic read), mem or i/o(mem access), cache level(generic)
> 
> Is it possible to use the page or offset to calculate which DIMM is having a
> problem?


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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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