From: will.deacon@arm•com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] make memtest a generic kernel feature
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:18:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150317171822.GW8399@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425896830-19705-1-git-send-email-vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:27:04AM +0000, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> 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.
>
> It was reported that this patch set was useful for tracking down an issue with
> some errant DMA on an arm64 platform.
>
> Since it touches x86 and mm bits it'd be great to get ACK/NAK for these bits.
Is your intention for akpm to merge this? I don't mind how it goes upstream,
but that seems like a sensible route to me.
Will
> Changelog:
>
> RFC -> v1
> - updated kernel-parameters.txt for memtest entry
> - updated number of test patterns in Kconfig menu
> - added Acked/Tested tags for arm64 bits
> - rebased on v4.0-rc3
>
> Vladimir Murzin (6):
> mm: move memtest under /mm
> memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses
> arm64: add support for memtest
> arm: add support for memtest
> Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17
> Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry
>
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
> 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 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 11 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 140 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 arch/x86/mm/memtest.c
> create mode 100644 mm/memtest.c
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-17 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-09 10:27 [PATCH 0/6] make memtest a generic kernel feature Vladimir Murzin
2015-03-09 10:27 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: move memtest under /mm Vladimir Murzin
2015-03-09 10:27 ` [PATCH 2/6] memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses Vladimir Murzin
2015-03-09 10:27 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm64: add support for memtest Vladimir Murzin
2015-03-09 10:27 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm: " Vladimir Murzin
2015-03-09 10:27 ` [PATCH 5/6] Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17 Vladimir Murzin
2015-03-09 10:27 ` [PATCH 6/6] Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry Vladimir Murzin
2015-03-17 17:18 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2015-03-17 17:20 ` [PATCH 0/6] make memtest a generic kernel feature Vladimir Murzin
2015-03-17 17:31 ` Will Deacon
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