linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] make memtest a generic kernel feature

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Message-ID: <20150302151400.GI15668@tarshish>
Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:14:00 +0200
From:	Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
To:	Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, mark.rutland@....com,
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	catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, linux@....linux.org.uk, tglx@...utronix.de,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] make memtest a generic kernel feature

Hi Vladimir,

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 02:55:41PM +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.

Please update the architectures list in the 'memtest' entry at 
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

baruch

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