kernel中的memtest

在mm/Makefile中
obj-$(CONFIG_MEMTEST)		+= memtest.o
可以看到使能CONFIG_MEMTEST，并且传递的command line 中保护 memtest 关键字的话，则kernel会对没有使用的free memory做memtest
具体源码在mm/memtest.c中
static int __init parse_memtest(char *arg)
{
	int ret = 0;
//看关键字memtest后面是否跟参数，memtest后面跟的参数表示测试dram的pattern，如果没有跟参数的话，就用kernel已经定义好的pattern
	if (arg)
		ret = kstrtouint(arg, 0, &memtest_pattern);
	else
		memtest_pattern = ARRAY_SIZE(patterns);

	return ret;
}
early_param("memtest", parse_memtest);
设置好参数后就通过bootmem_init->early_memtest来测试
void __init bootmem_init(void)
{
	unsigned long min, max;

	min = PFN_UP(memblock_start_of_DRAM());
	max = PFN_DOWN(memblock_end_of_DRAM());
//可以看到测试的范围是整个memblock
	early_memtest(min << PAGE_SHIFT, max << PAGE_SHIFT);
}

void __init early_memtest(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
{
	unsigned int i;
	unsigned int idx = 0;

	if (!memtest_pattern)
		return;
//可见是通过for循环来遍历整个memtest_pattern 数组
	pr_info("early_memtest: # of tests: %u\n", memtest_pattern);
	for (i = memtest_pattern-1; i < UINT_MAX; --i) {
		idx = i % ARRAY_SIZE(patterns);
//针对每个pattern都调用do_one_pass 来测试
		do_one_pass(patterns[idx], start, end);
	}
}

memtest_pattern被赋值成下面的数组，可见pattern就是一个64bit的数
static u64 patterns[] __initdata = {
	/* The first entry has to be 0 to leave memtest with zeroed memory */
	0,
	0x5555555555555555ULL,
	0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaULL,
};

static void __init do_one_pass(u64 pattern, phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
{
	u64 i;
	phys_addr_t this_start, this_end;
//针对memblock中所有free的memory测试
	for_each_free_mem_range(i, NUMA_NO_NODE, MEMBLOCK_NONE, &this_start,
				&this_end, NULL) {
		//这里的clamp相当与一个if else 语句		
		this_start = clamp(this_start, start, end);

		this_end = clamp(this_end, start, end);
		if (this_start < this_end) {
			pr_info("  %pa - %pa pattern %016llx\n",
				&this_start, &this_end, cpu_to_be64(pattern));

			memtest(pattern, this_start, this_end - this_start);
		}
	}
}

static void __init memtest(u64 pattern, phys_addr_t start_phys, phys_addr_t size)
{
	u64 *p, *start, *end;
	phys_addr_t start_bad, last_bad;
	phys_addr_t start_phys_aligned;
	const size_t incr = sizeof(pattern);

	start_phys_aligned = ALIGN(start_phys, incr);
	start = __va(start_phys_aligned);
	end = start + (size - (start_phys_aligned - start_phys)) / incr;
	start_bad = 0;
	last_bad = 0;
//将pattern写道dram中
	for (p = start; p < end; p++)
		*p = pattern;
//从dram中读到pattern和写入的pattern 比较，如果不想等的话，就说明测试failed，就将这段memory通过reserve_bad_mem 保留起来不使用，从而保证系统能正常boot
	for (p = start; p < end; p++, start_phys_aligned += incr) {
		if (*p == pattern)
			continue;
		if (start_phys_aligned == last_bad + incr) {
			last_bad += incr;
			continue;
		}
		if (start_bad)
			reserve_bad_mem(pattern, start_bad, last_bad + incr);
		start_bad = last_bad = start_phys_aligned;
	}
	if (start_bad)
		reserve_bad_mem(pattern, start_bad, last_bad + incr);
}

继续看看reserve_bad_mem
static void __init reserve_bad_mem(u64 pattern, phys_addr_t start_bad, phys_addr_t end_bad)
{
	pr_info("  %016llx bad mem addr %pa - %pa reserved\n",
		cpu_to_be64(pattern), &start_bad, &end_bad);
//原来是通过memblock_reserve 来将有问题的dram 预留出来。
	memblock_reserve(start_bad, end_bad - start_bad);
}