Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tracking address ranges for computer memory errors
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Application No.: US16363110Application Date: 2019-03-25
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Publication No.: US11017875B2Publication Date: 2021-05-25
- Inventor: John S. Dodson , Marc A. Gollub , Warren E. Maule , Brad W. Michael
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Nathan Rau
- Main IPC: G11C29/44
- IPC: G11C29/44 ; G11C29/38 ; G06F11/10 ; G06F11/22

Abstract:
Tracking address ranges for computer memory errors including detecting, by memory logic, an error at a memory address, the memory address representing one or more memory cells at a physical location of computer memory; reporting, by the memory logic to memory firmware, the detected error including providing the memory firmware with the memory address; identifying, by the memory firmware, an address range affected by the detected error including scanning the computer memory in dependence upon the memory address; determining, by the memory firmware, a region size based on the address range affected by the detected error; and populating an entry in a mark table corresponding to the detected error, including populating a field specifying the region size and a field specifying a match address corresponding to the memory address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190221280A1 TRACKING ADDRESS RANGES FOR COMPUTER MEMORY ERRORS Public/Granted day:2019-07-18
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