Re: Background memory scrubbing

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 05:19:41PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > Unfortunately in common with a large number of hardware platforms
> > background scrubbing isn't supported in the hardware (even though ECC
> > error correction is supported) and thus there is no BIOS option to
> > enable it.
> 
> Which hardware platform is this?  AFAICT all architectures with ECC
> (old AMD64, Family 0Fh, Family 10h) also have scrubbing support.
> If your BIOS is too dumb, just try enabling it directly (bits 0-4 of
> PCI configuration register 0x58 in function 3 of the CPU's northbridge
> device, see the BIOS and Kernel's Developer's Guide for details).

Or even better, if on AMD, you can build the amd64_edac module
(CONFIG_EDAC_AMD64) and do

echo <x> > /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc<y>/sdram_scrub_rate

where x is the scrubbing bandwidth in bytes/sec and y is the memory
controller on the machine, i.e. node.

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