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authorbz <bz@FreeBSD.org>2011-07-30 13:33:05 +0000
committerbz <bz@FreeBSD.org>2011-07-30 13:33:05 +0000
commit632886e187f7c724771cd4b4466d84230884ef60 (patch)
treec521c8297086642bc7d44fc59a0ae93642781762 /sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c
parent0a42bdeef711863b01cc5efca5a8665af3e93f4c (diff)
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Introduce a tunable to disable the time consuming parts of bootup
memtesting, which can easily save seconds to minutes of boot time. The tunable name is kept general to allow reusing the code in alternate frameworks. Requested by: many Discussed on: arch (a while a go) Obtained from: Sandvine Incorporated Reviewed by: sbruno Approved by: re (kib) MFC after: 2 weeks
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c')
-rw-r--r--sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c b/sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c
index f90ad03..00aa472 100644
--- a/sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c
+++ b/sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c
@@ -1309,7 +1309,7 @@ getmemsize(caddr_t kmdp, u_int64_t first)
{
int i, physmap_idx, pa_indx, da_indx;
vm_paddr_t pa, physmap[PHYSMAP_SIZE];
- u_long physmem_tunable;
+ u_long physmem_tunable, memtest, tmpul;
pt_entry_t *pte;
struct bios_smap *smapbase, *smap, *smapend;
u_int32_t smapsize;
@@ -1372,6 +1372,14 @@ getmemsize(caddr_t kmdp, u_int64_t first)
Maxmem = atop(physmem_tunable);
/*
+ * By default keep the memtest enabled. Use a general name so that
+ * one could eventually do more with the code than just disable it.
+ */
+ memtest = 1;
+ if (TUNABLE_ULONG_FETCH("hw.memtest.tests", &tmpul))
+ memtest = tmpul;
+
+ /*
* Don't allow MAXMEM or hw.physmem to extend the amount of memory
* in the system.
*/
@@ -1433,6 +1441,8 @@ getmemsize(caddr_t kmdp, u_int64_t first)
goto do_dump_avail;
page_bad = FALSE;
+ if (memtest == 0)
+ goto skip_memtest;
/*
* map page into kernel: valid, read/write,non-cacheable
@@ -1470,6 +1480,7 @@ getmemsize(caddr_t kmdp, u_int64_t first)
*/
*(int *)ptr = tmp;
+skip_memtest:
/*
* Adjust array of valid/good pages.
*/
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