On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:28 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > On 01/15/2013 05:47 PM, Alex Villacís Lasso wrote:
>> 2) I have recompiled the kernel to support the memtest parameter. When >> using it, the extra memory segment appears to be as healthy as other >> areas of memory. However this might only mean that it is wrapping into >> healthy low RAM. memtest should print out about the range. and if you are using 64bit kernel, it should test all memory except for range with kernel itself. >> >> Is my reasoning sane? Is there a way to know, once and for all, whether >> the extra "memory" is real and safe to use or not? > > > Maybe you can get memtest86+ to test this phantom memory? But yes, it does > sound like a BIOS bug. that may not help, because e820 from bios is not right. Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
