| Age | Commit message (Collapse) | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-13 | memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning | Qiang Zhang | |
| memtest failed to find bad memory when compiled with clang. So use {WRITE,READ}_ONCE to access memory to avoid compiler over optimization. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240312080422.691222-1-qiang4.zhang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qiang Zhang <qiang4.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | |||
| 2023-08-21 | mm: memtest: convert to memtest_report_meminfo() | Kefeng Wang | |
| It is better to not expose too many internal variables of memtest, add a helper memtest_report_meminfo() to show memtest results. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808033359.174986-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Tomas Mudrunka <tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | |||
| 2023-04-05 | mm/memtest: add results of early memtest to /proc/meminfo | Tomas Mudrunka | |
| Currently the memtest results were only presented in dmesg. When running a large fleet of devices without ECC RAM it's currently not easy to do bulk monitoring for memory corruption. You have to parse dmesg, but that's a ring buffer so the error might disappear after some time. In general I do not consider dmesg to be a great API to query RAM status. In several companies I've seen such errors remain undetected and cause issues for way too long. So I think it makes sense to provide a monitoring API, so that we can safely detect and act upon them. This adds /proc/meminfo entry which can be easily used by scripts. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321103430.7130-1-tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Mudrunka <tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | |||