linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters: Update memtest parameter

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Message-ID: <b8ffdc7e-1b5b-41df-835e-c11a200d7dec@infradead.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:05:01 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: WangYuli <wangyuli@...ontech.com>, corbet@....net,
 akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, paulmck@...nel.org,
 thuth@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, ardb@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 chenhuacai@...nel.org, kernel@...0n.name, loongarch@...ts.linux.dev,
 tsbogend@...ha.franken.de, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, chris@...kel.net,
 jcmvbkbc@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters: Update memtest parameter

Hi,

On 4/27/25 8:47 PM, WangYuli wrote:
> LoongArch, MIPS and XTENSA has supported memtest now.
> Update documentation for them.
> 
> Link: https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dce44566192ec0b38597fdfd435013c2d54653ff
> Link: https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fb8e9f59d6f292c3d9fea6c155c22ea5fc3053ab
> Signed-off-by: WangYuli <wangyuli@...ontech.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index d9fd26b95b34..eeba55deb38d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -3620,7 +3620,7 @@
>  			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
>  			the feature is not effective.
>  
> -	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
> +	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,LOONGARCH,MIPS,M68K,PPC,RISCV,XTENSA,EARLY] Enable memtest

It looks to me like ARM64 needs its own entry above.

>  			Format: <integer>
>  			default : 0 <disable>
>  			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be

-- 
~Randy