Subject: [PATCH 0/6] make memtest a generic kernel feature

From: [email-masked] (Will Deacon)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:18:22 +0000

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
>