Re: [PATCH] mm/memtest: Add ARCH_USE_MEMTEST

From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	"open list:TENSILICA XTENSA PORT (xtensa)" 
	<linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memtest: Add ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 23:35:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMo8BfLXaycXgy-F=TaWzpEZZJKEhbZecxwvBVd6jTo0RJ8atQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1612498242-31579-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:10 PM Anshuman Khandual
<anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:
>
> early_memtest() does not get called from all architectures. Hence enabling
> CONFIG_MEMTEST and providing a valid memtest=[1..N] kernel command line
> option might not trigger the memory pattern tests as would be expected in
> normal circumstances. This situation is misleading.
>
> The change here prevents the above mentioned problem after introducing a
> new config option ARCH_USE_MEMTEST that should be subscribed on platforms
> that call early_memtest(), in order to enable the config CONFIG_MEMTEST.
> Conversely CONFIG_MEMTEST cannot be enabled on platforms where it would
> not be tested anyway.
>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
> ---
> This patch applies on v5.11-rc6 and has been tested on arm64 platform. But
> it has been just build tested on all other platforms.
>
>  arch/arm/Kconfig     | 1 +
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig   | 1 +
>  arch/mips/Kconfig    | 1 +
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
>  arch/x86/Kconfig     | 1 +
>  arch/xtensa/Kconfig  | 1 +
>  lib/Kconfig.debug    | 9 ++++++++-
>  7 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Anshuman, entries in arch/*/Konfig files are sorted in alphabetical order,
please keep them that way.

Reviewed-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max