x86: memtest: WARN if bad RAM found

Since this is not a particularly thorough test, if we find any bad
bits of RAM then there is a fair chance that there are other bad bits
we fail to detect.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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Ben Hutchings 2011-12-05 04:00:58 +00:00 committed by Avenger-285714
parent 6c723fe56c
commit 322291e2f2
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@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ static u64 patterns[] __initdata = {
static void __init reserve_bad_mem(u64 pattern, phys_addr_t start_bad, phys_addr_t end_bad)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_X86
WARN_ONCE(1, "Bad RAM detected. Use memtest86+ to perform a thorough test\n"
"and the memmap= parameter to reserve the bad areas.");
#endif
pr_info(" %016llx bad mem addr %pa - %pa reserved\n",
cpu_to_be64(pattern), &start_bad, &end_bad);
memblock_reserve(start_bad, end_bad - start_bad);