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Re: [XenPPC] PTEG full message


Yes, such a message could be made informative, at some debug level but not routinely, that pteg eviction code is being activated.  However, there is a theoretical absolutely full state when all ptes in a pteg and it's secondary hash twin are bolted, not just valid or locked.  We definitely need a bug panic message in this case.  Locked is a temporary state that prevents modification of a pte for a short time, and it will go away in a short time.  A valid but not locked or bolted entry can be made invalid and therefore evicted, so a new pte can be entered in the pteg, even if there were no empty (invalid) ptes when the pteg was first scanned.

Mark Mergen



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Maria Butrico wrote:
> As Dan and I were working on his blade, we got to a state where we
> thought that the system had hung.  We were seeing many many messages
> about the PTEG being full.  We removed the message, and after a minute
> delay the system started.  I think there maybe something wrong there,
> but we eventually made forward progress.  We did a bit of debugging
> before removing the message, and we did not see anything obviously
> wrong with the entry, so far.
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I did some more debugging on this, and when a pteg is declared full it
is indeed full and the pages there aren't at all that peculiar.  I think
we should remove the message entirely.   Also it is never the case that
the lock bit is on (for full pteg).


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