[CentOS] How to enable EDAC kernel module for checking ECC memory?

Thu Jun 26 15:11:17 UTC 2014
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 26.06.2014 um 00:08 schrieb Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com>:
> In order to support ZFS, we upgraded a backups server with a new, ECC 
> motherboard. We're running CentOS 6 with ZFS on Linux, recently patched. 
> Now, I want to enable EDAC so we can check for memory errors (and maybe 
> PCI errors as well) but so far, repeatedly pounding on the Google hasn't 
> yielded exactly what I need to do to enable EDAC.
> 
> One howto was covering PCI and edac, but "modprobe edac_mc" didn't work. 
> Here's some information below, How do I get edac up and running? Many 
> howtos cover how to use edac-ctl and edac-util, but none seem to cover 
> how to determine what module to load into the kernel.
> 
> [root at hume ~]# modprobe edac_mc
> FATAL: Module edac_mc not found.


it seems to be compiled into the kernel.

$ grep -i -E 'mce|edac' /boot/config-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64


> [root at hume ~]# lsmod | grep edac
> [root at hume ~]# cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 


check the available modules

$ find /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64/ | grep -i -E 'edac'

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LF