WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] bug fix patch

To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] bug fix patch
From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:05:15 -0700
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:05:08 +0000
Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nV0tplhZAprygKa7fD/EPSkFPnP04gOid2n98AY+J3alKvdAlJKl1rz66gEZ+7ooiF+8qVCwCtRE7sZulPCjbq1Vfc3AJAejaMgtkRqiSMmiO/eqzWHCwDyI5n5qFpYRvNmnoeEID4o/KR+vCX0ce9fETSY/zVMXSchFhiapIw8=
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <A95E2296287EAD4EB592B5DEEFCE0E9D1E3C01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <A95E2296287EAD4EB592B5DEEFCE0E9D1E3C01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-to: Kip Macy <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Your proposal introduces a potantial SMP race, but we're discussing a
> better fix.
> 
> However, I'm not entirely sure we want to fully support the behaviour
> that you are relying on. Why can't you pin the L2 page when its empty
> (as we do on Linux), before it contains the linear mapping?

I can and will. It was supported previously so I used it.

> why you can't just do the pinning earlier?
I can.

Per your request I've removed the change to mm.c in:
http://www.fsmware.com/xen/patches/050417/fixes

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>