On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 11:54:04AM -0400, M. Levinson wrote:
On Jun 5, 2017, at 1:09pm, Patrick Welche writes:
memtestplus starts on boot, I am given the option for safe mode, but come
what may, as soon as testing starts, the laptop reboots.
I saw the same symptom you're seeing, and I found that the smp_find_cpus()
function in smp.c simply didn't work on my system. Since the failure isn't
detected and act_cpus is initialized to 0, memtest rebooted after a division
by zero at line 1159 in main.c:
case 7: /* Block move */
ticks = (ch + ch/act_cpus + c*ch);
break;
I crudely sidestepped the problem by forcing it to always use only one CPU:
diff --git a/smp.h b/smp.h
--- a/smp.h
+++ b/smp.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
#define _SMP_H_
#include "stdint.h"
#include "defs.h"
-#define MAX_CPUS 32
+#define MAX_CPUS 1
#define FPSignature ('_' | ('M' << 8) | ('P' << 16) | ('_' << 24))
The above worked for me on -current/amd64! This particular laptop
has an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz, so I also tried
MAX_CPUS 2, which failed.