Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753816Ab2KIO3h (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2012 09:29:37 -0500 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:33703 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752877Ab2KIO3f (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2012 09:29:35 -0500 Message-ID: <509D12DF.9000506@ahsoftware.de> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:27:43 +0100 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20121002 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: richard -rw- weinberger CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: memtest: make it a bit faster References: <1352466758-4596-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1014 Lines: 26 Am 09.11.2012 15:21, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger: > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Alexander Holler 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/