Re: [RFC] arm: memtest

2012-11-09 Thread Alexander Holler
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 09:48:18PM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently discovered the lack of the command line parameter > memtest for ARM. So I've made a patch. Sorry, I've made again the failure to just use xclip with thunderbird which resulted in a malformed patch. I've n

Re: [RFC] arm: memtest

2012-11-08 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 08.11.2012 23:39, schrieb Yinghai Lu: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Alexander Holler wrote: Hello, I've recently discovered the lack of the command line parameter memtest for ARM. So I've made a patch. But I have some questions: 1. arch/x86/mm/memtest.c looks platform independ. The onl

Re: [RFC] arm: memtest

2012-11-08 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Alexander Holler wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently discovered the lack of the command line parameter memtest for > ARM. So I've made a patch. > > But I have some questions: > > 1. arch/x86/mm/memtest.c looks platform independ. > The only thing why I don't use it fo

RE : [RFC] arm: memtest

2012-11-08 Thread Matthieu Castet
Note memtester is also a great userspace tool for testing memory : http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/ It works fine on arm and other arch (but work on malloc or /dev/mem memory)-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.

[RFC] arm: memtest

2012-11-08 Thread Alexander Holler
Hello, I've recently discovered the lack of the command line parameter memtest for ARM. So I've made a patch. But I have some questions: 1. arch/x86/mm/memtest.c looks platform independ. The only thing why I don't use it for arm, is because it uses 64bit pointers. Maybe it could be moved to