Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Waiman Long <> | Subject | [PATCH] doc: Fix some typo errors in ras.rst | Date | Tue, 5 May 2020 11:10:49 -0400 |
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Fix typo errors.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> --- Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst index 0310db624964..8b1803b2606f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst @@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ the labels provided by the BIOS won't match the real ones. ECC memory ---------- -As mentioned on the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to be -used for error correction. So, on 64 bit systems, a memory module -has 64 bits of *data width*, and 74 bits of *total width*. So, there are -8 bits extra bits to be used for the error detection and correction +As mentioned on the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to +be used for error correction. So, on 64 bit systems, a memory module +has 64 bits of *data width*, and 72 bits of *total width*. So, there +are 8 extra bits to be used for the error detection and correction mechanisms. Those extra bits are called *syndrome*\ [#f1]_\ [#f2]_. So, when the cpu requests the memory controller to write a word with -- 2.18.1
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