[coreboot] v3 memtest Unexpected Interrupt - Halting

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri May 9 12:44:29 CEST 2008


On 09.05.2008 12:21, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 09.05.2008 07:01, Peter Stuge wrote:
>   
>> A long v3 memtest was requested. It doesn't take long before Memtest
>> stops, sometimes it is immediate after startup. The serial console
>> looks like this:
>>   
>>     
>
> I tried to make sense of the output, but I'm not completely sure I got
> it right.
>
>   
>>       Memtest-86 v3.4       | Pass 10% ###
>>   
>>     
>
> Which gcc? Newer gcc miscompile memtest86 and memtest86+ due to
> undefined statements in the memtest code. This not only causes memtest
> to throw errors which don't exist, in theory it also could lead to
> overwriting of its own stack and code.
>   

Try memtest86+ v2.01 from http://www.memtest.org/ with the patches
contained in the openSUSE source RPM from a few days ago (attached).
fix-overflows.diff is the one enabling memtest86+ to work well with
recent gcc. You may or may not want to apply the other patches as well.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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