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Date:   Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:34:12 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@kvack.org, Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
        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>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] mm/memtest: Add ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 10:02:06AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual 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
> Reviewed-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

For arm64:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>