The bluesmoke project at sourceforge.net is now utilized as a 'staging area'
for EDAC development, before it is sent upstream to kernel.org
-At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site, is a series of quilt patches against
-recent kernels, stored in a SVN respository. For easier downloading, there
+At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site is a series of quilt patches against
+recent kernels, stored in a SVN repository. For easier downloading, there
is also a tarball snapshot available.
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to generate parity. Some vendors do not do this, and thus the parity bit
can "float" giving false positives.
-In the kernel there is a pci device attribute located in sysfs that is
+In the kernel there is a PCI device attribute located in sysfs that is
checked by the EDAC PCI scanning code. If that attribute is set,
-PCI parity/error scannining is skipped for that device. The attribute
+PCI parity/error scanning is skipped for that device. The attribute
is:
broken_parity_status
-as is located in /sys/devices/pci<XXX>/0000:XX:YY.Z directorys for
+as is located in /sys/devices/pci<XXX>/0000:XX:YY.Z directories for
PCI devices.
FUTURE HARDWARE SCANNING
'ue_noinfo_count'
- This attribute file displays the number of UEs that
- have occurred have occurred with no informations as to which DIMM
- slot is having errors.
+ This attribute file displays the number of UEs that have occurred
+ with no information as to which DIMM slot is having errors.
Total Correctable Errors count attribute file:
'sdram_scrub_rate'
Read/Write attribute file that controls memory scrubbing. The scrubbing
- rate is set by writing a minimum bandwith in bytes/sec to the attribute
+ rate is set by writing a minimum bandwidth in bytes/sec to the attribute
file. The rate will be translated to an internal value that gives at
least the specified rate.