Re: [PATCH] mtd: Add simple read disturb test

[Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 04:13:46PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> This simple MTD tests allows the user to see when read disturb happens.
> By reading blocks over and over it reports flipped bits.
> Currently it reports only flipped bits of the worst page of a block.
> If within block X page P1 has 3 bit flips and P6 4, it will report 4.
> By default every 50th block is read.

Didn't read through this much yet, but why do we need another in-kernel
test that coul (AFAICT) be easily replicated in userspace? The same goes
for several of the other tests, I think, actually. But at least with
those, we have a history of keeping them around, so it's not too much
burden [1].

Brian

[1] Although there are some latent issues in these tests that are still
getting get worked out (e.g., bad handling of 64-bit casting; too large
of stacks; uninterruptibility). The latter two would not even exist if
we were in user space.