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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
John S. Dodson, Austin, TX (US);
Marc A. Gollub, Round Rock, TX (US);
Warren E. Maule, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Brad W. Michael, Cedar Park, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
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.