> 
> 
> I would suggest to rewrite/simplify/clarify the patch description, not
> talking about "buggy" etc, focusing on the simplification.
> 
> "
> The original version of mremap_test (7df666253f26: "kselftests: vm: add
> mremap tests") validated remapped contents byte-by-byte and printed a
> mismatch index in case the bytes streams didn't match. That was rather
> inefficient, especially also if the test passed.
> 
> Later, commit 7033c6cc9620 ("selftests/mm: mremap_test: optimize
> execution time from minutes to seconds using chunkwise memcmp") used
> memcmp() on bigger chunks, to fallback to byte-wise scanning to detect
> the problematic index only if it discovered a problem.
> 
> However, the implementation is overly complicated (e.g., get_sqrt() is
> currently not optimal) and we don't really have to report the exact
> index: whoever debugs the failing test can figure that out.
> 
> Let's simplify by just comparing both byte streams with memcmp() and not
> detecting the exact failed index.

Thanks, I'll use this!

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