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** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Tags added: yakkety

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Title:
  Kernel message "Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds"

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I seem to be getting the dmesg associated with (BIOS area) memory
  corruptions:

  $ dmesg | grep -B 3 -A 3 'memory corruption'
  [    0.000000]   9 disabled
  [    0.000000] x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: WB  WC  UC- UC  WB  WC  UC- WT
  [    0.000000] e820: last_pfn = 0x7b000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
  [    0.000000] Scanning 1 areas for low memory corruption
  [    0.000000] Base memory trampoline at [ffff9251c0098000] 98000 size 24576
  [    0.000000] Using GB pages for direct mapping
  [    0.000000] BRK [0x0aa51000, 0x0aa51fff] PGTABLE
  --
  [    1.921953] Freeing initrd memory: 40180K (ffff9251f3176000 - 
ffff9251f58b3000)
  [    1.921959] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
  [    1.921962] software IO TLB [mem 0x6d6c6000-0x716c6000] (64MB) mapped at 
[ffff92522d6c6000-ffff9252316c5fff]
  [    1.922193] Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
  [    1.923014] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
  [    1.923057] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
  [    1.923084] audit: type=2000 audit(1485733297.863:1): initialized

  According to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16661#c15,
  the fix was committed 6 years ago:

     a fix for this has been merged in .37-rc1 ...
     x86, bios: By default, reserve the low 64K for all BIOSes

  It looks like the kernel is being built with an option that's no
  longer needed (or I have mixed-up issues or mis-parsed the bug
  reports).

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  $ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description:    Ubuntu 16.10
  Release:        16.10
  Codename:       yakkety
  goldmont:~$ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description:    Ubuntu 16.10
  Release:        16.10
  Codename:       yakkety

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