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

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Date:	Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:28:39 +0000
From:	Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>
To:	Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] make memtest a generic kernel feature

On 02/03/15 15:14, Baruch Siach wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for pointing at it. I'll add updates for documentation to my next
version.

Vladimir

> 
> baruch
> 


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