119 results about "Memory faults" patented technology

A shared memory controller is provided for controlling access to a shared memory by a plurality of processors. At least one device includes a storage area for storing a respective address range for each of a plurality of memory regions. The at least one device further includes a permission table containing, for each of the plurality of memory regions, read and write permission data for each of the plurality of processors. A memory fault detector is coupled to the at least one device and has an input for receiving a memory access request including a memory address, a processor identification and a read/write indicator. The memory fault detector includes logic for determining whether a memory access according to the memory access request would conflict with the read and write permission data in the permission table.

Effects of a physical memory fault are mitigated. In one example, to facilitate mitigation, memory is allocated to processing entities of a computing environment, such as applications, operating systems, or virtual machines, in a manner that minimizes impact to the computing environment in the event of a memory failure. Allocation includes using memory structure information, including, information regarding fault containment zones, to allocate memory to the processing entities. By allocating memory based on fault containment zones, a fault only affects a minimum number of processing entities.

Method and system for reducing memory faults for computer systems. In one aspect, a notification is received that indicates that a single bit error has been detected in a portion of memory of the computer system. A service program is used to isolate the portion of the memory that includes the detected single bit error by allocating the portion of memory to itself, such that the portion of memory may no longer be accessed for data reading or writing by programs running on the computer system.

The invention provides a method for positioning a faulted memory in a linux system. The method comprises that error types and fault positions of the faulted memory are judged quickly and problems such as server halting and blue screens caused by memory faults are solved quickly by usage of mcelog records produced by the system according to the actual physical slot comparison relationship without regard to judgments and records of memory faults provided by a mainboard baseboard management controller (bmc). Compared with existing memory fault judgment methods, the method has the advantages that the method is independent of a memory fault tracking and positioning function of the mainboard bmc; on-site repetition of pressure tests to wait for faults and exchange of memory tests to position the faulted memory are not required, and the fault appearance frequency, fault reasons and fault positions can be determined quickly according to generated mcelog logs; and the implementation method is simple, and the efficiency for judgment and solving of problems can be improved.

A method and system usable in sensor networks for handling memory faults is disclosed. In order to protect the operating system of a sensor node, coarse-grained memory protection is provided by creating and enforcing an application fault domain in the data memory address space of the sensor node. The data memory accessed by the application modules is restricted to the region (which defines the application fault domain) within the data memory address space. The application modules are prevented from accessing memory outside the application fault domain through software-based run-time checks. The state belonging to the operations system is maintained outside of the application fault domain, and is thus protected from memory corruption from any application module. In order to ensure that an application module does not operate on a corrupted state, fine-grained error detection and recovery is provided within the application fault domain. Any corruption of memory within the application fault domain is detected by a run-time memory integrity verifier implemented in the operating system kernel. Recovery involves purging the corrupted state and restarting only the affected application module to operate on an uncorrupted state.

A method of handling memory errors. A memory fault indication is received that is true if an error in the memory is detected while executing a memory load request to retrieve a value from the memory. A speculative load indication is received that is true if the memory load request was issued speculatively. If the memory fault indication is true and the speculative load indication is true, then an error indication that the returned value is invalid is provided, otherwise, error recovery is performed.

Dynamically replicated memory is usable to allocate new memory space from failed memory pages by pairing compatible failed memory pages to reuse otherwise unusable failed memory pages. Dynamically replicating memory involves detecting and recording memory faults, reclaiming failed memory pages for later use, recovering from detected memory faults, and scheduling access to replicated memory pages.

Dynamically replicated memory is usable to allocate new memory space from failed memory pages by pairing compatible failed memory pages to reuse otherwise unusable failed memory pages. Dynamically replicating memory involves detecting and recording memory faults, reclaiming failed memory pages for later use, recovering from detected memory faults, and scheduling access to replicated memory pages.

The invention provides a memory fault injection method and a simulator thereof for a software BIT. A hardware circuit board carrying out BIT software serves as a mock object of the simulator. An analog module for simulating normal functions of a memory, a fault modeling and model analysis module for establishing and analyzing fault sequence files, a fault injection module for matching the faults to be injected, and a fault behavior analog module and a peripheral cross-linking environment simulation module are added to the simulator. The method includes establishing a fault mode base, writing and analyzing extensive makeup language (XML) fault sequence files into identifiable fault sequences, searching and injecting corresponding faults when a processor accesses the memory, and performing fault simulation when the faults are triggered. According to the method and the simulator, the injected fault modes are complete and fully cover test cases under each fault occurrence for the memory, sufficient tests can be performed on the BIT software on a circuit board level, and only the BIT software after the sufficient tests can guarantee accuracy and timeliness of BIT fault prediction of aeronautical airborne equipment and further guarantee system reliability and safety.

The invention discloses a method and a device for isolating memory failure on a server, relating to the technical field of a server product. The method comprises: when a server is powered on or restarted, a BIOS obtains memory failure information about the memory failure of the server stored in a BMC; ; the BIOS analyzes the memory fault information according to the interface configuration of theserver, and judges whether the failed memory needs to be isolated or not; if it is judged that the faulty memory needs to be isolated, the BIOS determines the isolation level of the faulty memory, andisolates the faulty memory according to the determined isolation level.

The invention provides a method for positioning a fault memory. Each memory corresponds to a light emitting diode (LED) lamp; in system startup process, a basic input/output system (BIOS) detects memories; and if a memory fault is discovered, an intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) command is sent to a baseboard management controller (BMC), the BMC acquires the position of the fault memory according to the IPMI command, and the LED lamp corresponding to the fault memory is turned on, wherein the memory corresponding to the lighting position of the LED lamp is the fault memory. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) starting a system, and detecting the memories by the BIOS; (2) when the BIOS detects the memory fault, organizing the IPMI command according to the position information of the fault memory, and sending the IPMI command to the BMC; and (3) receiving the IPMI command sent by the BIOS by the BMC, resolving the position information of the acquired fault memory, and turning on the LED lamp corresponding to the fault memory.

One embodiment provides a runtime programmable system which comprises methods and apparatuses for testing a multi-port memory device to detect a multi-port memory fault, in addition to typical single-port memory faults that can be activated when accessing a single port of a memory device. More specifically, the system comprises a number of mechanisms which can be configured to activate and detect any realistic fault which affects the memory device when two simultaneous memory access operations are performed. During operation, the system can receive an instruction sequence, which implements a new test procedure for testing the memory device, while the memory device is being tested. Furthermore, the system can implement a built-in self-test (BIST) solution for testing any multi-port memory device, and can generate tests targeted to a specific memory design based in part on information from the instruction sequence.

A method for verifying the accuracy of memory testing software is disclosed. A built-in self test (BIST) fail control function is utilized to generate multiple simulated memory fails at various predetermined locations within a memory array of a memory device. The memory array is then tested by a memory tester. Afterwards, a bit fail map is generated by the logical-to-physical mapping software based on all the memory fails indicated by the memory tester. The bit fail map provides all the fail memory locations derived by the logical-to-physical mapping software. The fail memory locations derived by the logical-to-physical mapping software are then compared to the predetermined memory locations to verify the accuracy of the logical-to-physical mapping software.

The invention provides a method for batched server memory fault detection through an IPMI tool, and belongs to the field of fault detection. The method comprises the steps that recording and scanning bmc logs of all servers inside a network through the IPMI tool, analyzing machines with the memory problem from the result, conducting batched checking on the batched servers inside the network through a script, rapidly determining the machines with the memory ecc errors, and achieving memory batched checking of the batched machines. According to the method, the testing time is shortened, and working efficiency is improved.

A dynamic binary translator apparatus, method and program for translating a first block of binary computer code intended for execution in a subject execution environment having a first memory of one page size into a second block for execution in a second execution environment having a second memory of another page size, comprising a redirection page mapper responsive to a page characteristic of the first memory for mapping an address of the first memory to an address of the second memory; a memory fault behaviour detector operable to detect memory faulting during execution of the second block and to accumulate a fault count to a trigger threshold; and a regeneration component responsive to the fault count reaching the trigger threshold to discard the second block and cause the first block to be retranslated with its memory references remapped by a page table walk.

Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to memory fault tolerance, and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for single channel memory mirroring. In one embodiment of the invention, a single channel memory mirroring system can be provided. The single channel memory mirroring system can include a memory controller, a single communications channel, and an operational data portion of memory, and a duplicate data portion of memory, both portions being communicatively coupled to the memory controller over the single communications channel. Finally, the system can include single channel memory mirror logic. The logic can include program code enabled to mirror data in the operational data portion of memory in the duplicate data portion of memory.

The present invention discloses a diagonal testing method for flash memories. The testing method regards the flash memory as several squares, and executes in the direction from top to bottom and from left to right. Each square is provided with a first diagonal in −45 degrees from the upper left to the lower right, and a second diagonal in +45 degrees from the lower left to the upper right. The present invention is to program the cells in the first diagonal or the second diagonal, and then read the cells except the first diagonal or the second diagonal; or, program the cells except the first diagonal or the second diagonal, and then read the cells in the first diagonal or the second diagonal so as to detect the disturb fault in the flash memories and normal memory fault models.

The invention provides an aviation application-based verification method for domestic storages. The aviation application-based verification method sequentially comprises the following steps: 1) storage chip detection; 2) board level functionality test; 3) board level performance test; 4) complete machine level verification; 5) comprehensive analysis and evaluation. According to the aviation application-based verification method disclosed by the invention, basic environment adaptation verification is performed on the applications of the domestic storages on aviation weapon systems, and the single memory unit faults, single memory unit reversal faults, inter-unit coupling faults and memory faults and unit sensitization faults of the various storages, as well as the data retention faults of the changes of unit logical values due to electric leakage after some periods, can be verified, thus providing a beneficial guarantee for domestic development of the aviation weapon systems.

A memory region can durably self-identify as being faulty when read. Information that would have been assigned to the faulty memory region can be assigned to another of that sized region in memory using a replacement encoding technique. For phase change memory, at least two fault states can be provided for durably self-identifying a faulty memory region; one state at a highest resistance range and the other state at a lowest resistance range. Replacement cells can be used to shift or assign data when a self-identifying memory fault is present. A memory controller and memory module, alone or in combination may manage replacement cell use and facilitate driving a newly discovered faulty cell to a fault state if the faulty cell is not already at the fault state.