Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:53:53 +0200 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: discriminate single bit error hardware failure from slab corruption. |
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On 2/2/06, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > In the case where we detect a single bit has been flipped, we spew > the usual slab corruption message, which users instantly think > is a kernel bug. In a lot of cases, single bit errors are > down to bad memory, or other hardware failure. > > This patch adds an extra line to the slab debug messages in those > cases, in the hope that users will try memtest before they report a bug. > > 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b > Single bit error detected. Possibly bad RAM. Please run memtest86. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Looks good to me.
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