Re: [PATCH] x86: memtest: make it a bit faster

From: Alexander Holler
Date: Fri Nov 09 2012 - 09:29:26 EST


Am 09.11.2012 15:21, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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