linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] x86: memtest: introduce array to store memtest patterns

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Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:58:21 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] x86: memtest: introduce array to store memtest 
	patterns

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Andreas Herrmann
<andreas.herrmann3@....com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 09:52:31AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Andreas Herrmann wrote:
>> > -#define _MAX_MEM_PATTERNS 4
>> > +static unsigned long patterns[] = {
>> > +   0UL,
>> > +   -1UL,
>> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>> > +   0x5555555555555555UL,
>> > +   0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaUL,
>> > +#else
>> > +   0x55555555UL,
>> > +   0xaaaaaaaaUL,
>> > +#endif
>> > +};
>>
>> Why not just use u64 for the pattern even on 32 bits?
>
> I just assumed that this was a settled thing.
>
> Yinghai, was there a specific reason why you did not use an u64 for
> the memory test pattern on 32-bit?
> (See commit 1f067167a83d1c7f80437fd1d32b55508aaca009 "x86: seperate
> memtest from init_64.c")
>
> If not I'll adapt this and send out a new patch set.

should be ok,  but please make sure target range is u64 alignment.

YH
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