From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: memtest: make it a bit faster
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:27:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <509D12DF.9000506@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLxGvzKJBA7VtzvafBry874GCiwVVWxtcktdQ=7BcVT3K2E_A@mail.gmail.com>
Am 09.11.2012 15:21, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.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.
Regards,
Alexander
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-09 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-09 13:12 [PATCH] x86: memtest: make it a bit faster Alexander Holler
2012-11-09 14:21 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-11-09 14:27 ` Alexander Holler [this message]
2012-11-21 16:18 ` Alexander Holler
2012-11-21 16:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: memtest: checkpatch and emergency warning if memtest fails Alexander Holler
2012-11-21 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: memtest: remove unnecessary round to leave memtest with zeroed mem Alexander Holler
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