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SubjectRe: broken memory chip -> software fix?
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> I have a broken bit in my memory - at address 0x04d5ae38 if you want
> to know the details (bit 29 of the double word there sometimes reads
> as 1 when it was written as 0, in particular if bit 15 is at 1). I
> discovered this by observing a one-bit corruption of some files, and
> diagnosed it by running memtest86.
>
> Now that I know the address, is there a way I can prevent Linux from
> using that region of memory in any way? The simplest and cleanest

Yep. The mem= option can exclude stuff. Alternatively you can
patch arch/i386/kernel/mm/init.c:mem_init() to skip that page.
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