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

From: Alexander Holler
Date: Wed Nov 21 2012 - 11:18:53 EST


Hello,

Am 09.11.2012 15:27, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> 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.

As I don't know if version for ARM (or the move) will ever happen, I've
now made 2 patches as requested. They will follow.

Regards,

Alexander
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