Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] dmaengine: dmatest: add support for memset test

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Tue Jul 18 2017 - 12:23:24 EST


On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:30:58PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> Introducing memset test into dmatest. This change allows us to test
> memset capable HW using the dmatest test procedure. The new dmatest
> value for memset is 2 and it is not the default value.
>
> Memset support patch shares the same code path as the other dmatest
> code to reuse as much as we can.
>
> The first value inside the source buffer is used as a pattern
> to fill in the destination buffer space.
>
> Prior to running the test, source/destination buffers are initialized
> in the current code.
>
> "The remaining bits are the inverse of a counter which increments by
> one for each byte address."
>
> Memset test will fill in the upper bits of pattern with the inverse of
> fixed counter value 1 as opposed to an incrementing value in a loop.
>
> An example run is as follows:
>
> echo dma0chan0 > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/channel
> echo 2 > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/dmatest
> echo 2000 > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/timeout
> echo 10 > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/iterations
> echo 1 > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/run

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod