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memtest does not require these headers to be included.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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- prefer pr_info(... to printk(KERN_INFO ...
- use %pa for phys_addr_t
- use cpu_to_be64 while printing pattern in reserve_bad_mem()
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Since simple_strtoul is obsolete and memtest_pattern is type of int, use
kstrtouint instead.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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based on attribute
Some high end Intel Xeon systems report uncorrectable memory errors as a
recoverable machine check. Linux has included code for some time to
process these and just signal the affected processes (or even recover
completely if the error was in a read only page that can be replaced by
reading from disk).
But we have no recovery path for errors encountered during kernel code
execution. Except for some very specific cases were are unlikely to ever
be able to recover.
Enter memory mirroring. Actually 3rd generation of memory mirroing.
Gen1: All memory is mirrored
Pro: No s/w enabling - h/w just gets good data from other side of the
mirror
Con: Halves effective memory capacity available to OS/applications
Gen2: Partial memory mirror - just mirror memory begind some memory controllers
Pro: Keep more of the capacity
Con: Nightmare to enable. Have to choose between allocating from
mirrored memory for safety vs. NUMA local memory for performance
Gen3: Address range partial memory mirror - some mirror on each memory
controller
Pro: Can tune the amount of mirror and keep NUMA performance
Con: I have to write memory management code to implement
The current plan is just to use mirrored memory for kernel allocations.
This has been broken into two phases:
1) This patch series - find the mirrored memory, use it for boot time
allocations
2) Wade into mm/page_alloc.c and define a ZONE_MIRROR to pick up the
unused mirrored memory from mm/memblock.c and only give it out to
select kernel allocations (this is still being scoped because
page_alloc.c is scary).
This patch (of 3):
Add extra "flags" to memblock to allow selection of memory based on
attribute. No functional changes
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <[email protected]>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <[email protected]>
Cc: Xiexiuqi <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Since memtest might be used by other architectures pass input parameters
as phys_addr_t instead of long to prevent overflow.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Memtest is a simple feature which fills the memory with a given set of
patterns and validates memory contents, if bad memory regions is detected
it reserves them via memblock API. Since memblock API is widely used by
other architectures this feature can be enabled outside of x86 world.
This patch set promotes memtest to live under generic mm umbrella and
enables memtest feature for arm/arm64.
It was reported that this patch set was useful for tracking down an issue
with some errant DMA on an arm64 platform.
This patch (of 6):
There is nothing platform dependent in the core memtest code, so other
platforms might benefit from this feature too.
[[email protected]: MEMTEST depends on MEMBLOCK]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Bolle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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