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x86/memtest: Shorten time for tests

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By just reversing the order memtest is using the test patterns,
an additional round to zero the memory is not necessary.

This might save up to a second or even more for setups which are
doing tests on every boot.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361029097-8308-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Alexander Holler 2013-02-16 16:38:17 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 9611dc7a8d
commit 20bf062c65
1 changed files with 2 additions and 8 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/memtest.c
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@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/memblock.h>
static u64 patterns[] __initdata = {
/* The first entry has to be 0 to leave memtest with zeroed memory */
0,
0xffffffffffffffffULL,
0x5555555555555555ULL,
@ -110,15 +111,8 @@ void __init early_memtest(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
return;
printk(KERN_INFO "early_memtest: # of tests: %d\n", memtest_pattern);
for (i = 0; i < memtest_pattern; i++) {
for (i = memtest_pattern-1; i < UINT_MAX; --i) {
idx = i % ARRAY_SIZE(patterns);
do_one_pass(patterns[idx], start, end);
}
if (idx > 0) {
printk(KERN_INFO "early_memtest: wipe out "
"test pattern from memory\n");
/* additional test with pattern 0 will do this */
do_one_pass(0, start, end);
}
}