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Message-ID: <50ACFEBF.4070906@ahsoftware.de> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:18:07 +0100 From: Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de> To: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: memtest: make it a bit faster Hello, Am 09.11.2012 15:27, schrieb Alexander Holler: > Am 09.11.2012 15:21, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger: >> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de> wrote: >>> While implementing the same functionality for arm, I've noticed that >>> memtest does an unnecessary round to zero the memory. Just reversing the >>> order so that the last round writes 0s spares that round. >>> >>> While there, I've also changed the message if bad memory is found from >>> informational to emergency. >>> >>> And last I've removed some warnings from checkpatch. >> >> Please send these as additional patch. > > Than it might be better to wait for an answer from some ARM-people. > > Maybe it will make sense to move the whole file to mm/ or similar where > I could be used and modified for usage by ARM too. As I don't know if version for ARM (or the move) will ever happen, I've now made 2 patches as requested. They will follow. Regards, Alexander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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