Re: Disabling physical RAM regions for testing

[martin f. krafft]

also sprach Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx> [2014-08-05 14:26 +0200]:
> The e820 is probably not what you want to be looking at.  I would
> suggest looking into memory hot-plug/hot-remove support, IIRC the
> hot-remove support allows you to bring a bank offline.

Oh, good pointer, yeah, that would do and allow for online testing
to some degree.

I found http://feishare.com/linux/memory-hotplug-in-linux and
memory0 through memory69 in /sys/devices/system/memory, and only
3 of those are "removable==1".

My goal is to bring one of the two 4Gb DIMMs offline, verify that
the error I am seeing still exists, bring it back online and take
the other offline.

How do I find out which memory to hot-remove?

Am I right in assuming that I won't be able to remove
one-then-the-other as some memory regions may not be movable?

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