Documentation: admin-guide: Fix typos
Fix typos in admin-guide directory. Make documentation clear and grammatically correct. Signed-off-by: Tamara Diaconita <diaconita.tamara@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
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Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
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parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
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multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
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multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equaling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
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bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted:
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.. include:: kernel-parameters.txt
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ RAS concepts
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************
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Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) is a concept used on
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servers meant to measure their robusteness.
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servers meant to measure their robustness.
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Reliability
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is the probability that a system will produce correct outputs.
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* CPU – detect errors at instruction execution and at L1/L2/L3 caches;
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* Memory – add error correction logic (ECC) to detect and correct errors;
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* I/O – add CRC checksums for tranfered data;
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* I/O – add CRC checksums for transferred data;
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* Storage – RAID, journal file systems, checksums,
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Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART).
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By monitoring the number of occurrences of error detections, it is possible
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to identify if the probability of hardware errors is increasing, and, on such
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case, do a preventive maintainance to replace a degrated component while
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case, do a preventive maintenance to replace a degraded component while
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those errors are correctable.
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Types of errors
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@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ using the ``dmidecode`` tool. For example, on a desktop machine, it shows::
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On the above example, a DDR4 SO-DIMM memory module is located at the
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system's memory labeled as "BANK 0", as given by the *bank locator* field.
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Please notice that, on such system, the *total width* is equal to the
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*data witdh*. It means that such memory module doesn't have error
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*data width*. It means that such memory module doesn't have error
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detection/correction mechanisms.
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Unfortunately, not all systems use the same field to specify the memory
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There, the DDR3 RDIMM memory module is located at the system's memory labeled
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as "DIMM_A1", as given by the *locator* field. Please notice that this
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memory module has 64 bits of *data witdh* and 72 bits of *total width*. So,
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memory module has 64 bits of *data width* and 72 bits of *total width*. So,
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it has 8 extra bits to be used by error detection and correction mechanisms.
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Such kind of memory is called Error-correcting code memory (ECC memory).
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.. [#f1] Please notice that several memory controllers allow operation on a
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mode called "Lock-Step", where it groups two memory modules together,
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doing 128-bit reads/writes. That gives 16 bits for error correction, with
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significatively improves the error correction mechanism, at the expense
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significantly improves the error correction mechanism, at the expense
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that, when an error happens, there's no way to know what memory module is
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to blame. So, it has to blame both memory modules.
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