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Re: [PATCH] Re: [Xen-devel] x86-64 problem with invalid page fault in li

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [Xen-devel] x86-64 problem with invalid page fault in linux 2.6.16-rc1
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:57:06 -0500
Cc: Xen Mailing List <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi,

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 10:01 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> I had already pointed out to Christian that there are a couple of pieces 
> missing from the 2.6.16-rc? merges (along with
> the actual patches that we use for SLES10). The patch you provide here isn't 
> sufficient, however - the area that
> spurious page faults need to be dealt with is the entire kernel range 
> (otherwise e.g. memory hotplug code, which
> hopefully is or will be used for increasing a VMs memory, may trigger the 
> same problem). Jan

OK, thanks: that makes sense.

I notice "Fix upgrade omissions." in today's xen-unstable.hg logs; I
assume that that contains the other bits you referred to?

Cheers,
 Stephen



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