From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"arjan@linux.intel.com" <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
yinghai@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/7] x86, cpa: make the kernel physical mapping initialization a two pass sequence
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:08:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081008210854.GA14309@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48ED0E22.8080809@goop.org>
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Suresh Siddha wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:28:08AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>>> Well, that's OK. We just need to preserve the original page permissions
>>> when fragmenting the large mappings. (This isn't a case that affects
>>> Xen, because it will already be 4k mappings.)
>>>
>>
>> Jeremy, Can you please check if the appended patch fixes your issue and Ack
>> it? Test booted on three different 64bit platforms with and without
>> DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
>>
>
> This patch works fine under Xen. Thanks for the quick fix.
>
> Tested-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
applied to tip/x86/pat, thanks guys!
If it fails testing for some reason then it might not make the first
v2.6.28 pull request, but it's definitely moving in the right direction
so the PAT/TLB changes seem v2.6.28 worthy.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-08 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 21:00 [patch 0/7] x86, cpa: cpa related changes to be inline with TLB Application note - v2 Suresh Siddha
2008-09-23 21:00 ` [patch 1/7] x86, cpa: rename PTE attribute macros for kernel direct mapping in early boot Suresh Siddha
2008-09-23 21:00 ` [patch 2/7] x86, cpa: remove USER permission from the very early identity mapping attribute Suresh Siddha
2008-09-23 21:00 ` [patch 3/7] x86, cpa: make the kernel physical mapping initialization a two pass sequence Suresh Siddha
2008-10-06 20:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-06 23:09 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-07 1:58 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-10-07 15:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-07 20:58 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-10-07 21:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-08 19:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-08 21:08 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-09-23 21:00 ` [patch 4/7] x86, cpa: dont use large pages for kernel identity mapping with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Suresh Siddha
2008-09-23 21:00 ` [patch 5/7] x86, cpa: no need to check alias for __set_pages_p/__set_pages_np Suresh Siddha
2008-09-23 21:00 ` [patch 6/7] x86, cpa: remove cpa pool code Suresh Siddha
2008-09-23 21:00 ` [patch 7/7] x86, cpa: srlz cpa(), global flush tlb after splitting big page and before doing cpa Suresh Siddha
2008-09-24 8:15 ` [patch 0/7] x86, cpa: cpa related changes to be inline with TLB Application note - v2 Ingo Molnar
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2008-09-11 20:30 [patch 0/7] x86, cpa: cpa related changes to be inline with TLB Application note Suresh Siddha
2008-09-11 20:30 ` [patch 3/7] x86, cpa: make the kernel physical mapping initialization a two pass sequence Suresh Siddha
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