From: Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: User question about memory scrubbing
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 03:55:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKkunMaXyw+U-izfgXRuhN1tafjXksw_6rsMB82xv=zseFgkqA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200618175646.GD27951@zn.tnic>
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 7:56 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 06:49:45PM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote:
> > Hi! I realize that this is more of a developer-to-developer list, but
> > I'm a hobbyist who recently bought my first system with ECC RAM
> > (Opteron 6386 SE) and I can't get memory scrubbing to work. It's hard
> > to find people who know anything about it.
> >
> > Preliminary research led me to the EDAC documentation on
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-edac
> > and in particular the "sdram_scrub_rate" file, but had no luck
> > manipulating it.
>
> Oh, you're manipulating it alright but there's a bug in reporting it.
> Wanna test a patch?
Wow, nice to see that I'm not crazy, and thanks for the quick fix! I
saw the patch and I will try it out after I've re-learnt how to build
a kernel again. It's been well over 10 years since I last had to...
// Anders
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-19 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-18 16:49 User question about memory scrubbing Anders Andersson
2020-06-18 17:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-18 18:40 ` [PATCH] EDAC/amd64: Read back the scrub rate PCI register on F15h Borislav Petkov
2020-06-22 15:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-23 1:41 ` Anders Andersson
2020-06-23 9:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-19 1:55 ` Anders Andersson [this message]
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