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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/4] make memtest a generic kernel feature
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 02:55:41PM +0000, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Vladimir,

> Memtest is a simple feature which fills the memory with a given set of
> patterns and validates memory contents, if bad memory regions is detected it
> reserves them via memblock API. Since memblock API is widely used by other
> architectures this feature can be enabled outside of x86 world.
>
> This patch set promotes memtest to live under generic mm umbrella and enables
> memtest feature for arm/arm64.
>
> Patches are built on top of 4.0-rc1

Thanks for putting this together. I've found this extremely useful for
tracking down an issue with some errant DMA on an arm64 platform. For
the first three patches:

Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Thanks,
Mark.

>
> Vladimir Murzin (4):
> mm: move memtest under /mm
> memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses
> arm64: add support for memtest
> arm: add support for memtest
>
> arch/arm/mm/init.c | 3 ++
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 +
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 11 ----
> arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h | 8 ---
> arch/x86/mm/Makefile | 2 -
> arch/x86/mm/memtest.c | 118 -------------------------------------------
> include/linux/memblock.h | 8 +++
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 11 ++++
> mm/Makefile | 1 +
> mm/memtest.c | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 10 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 arch/x86/mm/memtest.c
> create mode 100644 mm/memtest.c
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>


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