Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 02/17] cpu_physical_memory_sync_dirty_bitmap: Fix alignment check

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> On 1 August 2017 at 17:17, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> >
> > This code has an optimised, word aligned version, and a boring
> > unaligned version.  Recently 084140bd498909 fixed a missing offset
> > addition from the core of both versions.  However, the offset isn't
> > necessarily aligned and thus the choice between the two versions
> > needs fixing up to also include the offset.
> >
> > Symptom:
> >   A few stuck unsent pages during migration; not normally noticed
> > unless under very low bandwidth in which case the migration may get
> > stuck never ending and never performing a 2nd sync; noticed by
> > a hanging postcopy-test on a very heavily loaded system.
> >
> > Fixes: 084140bd498909
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> > Reported-by: Alex Benneé <alex.benee@linaro.org>
> > Tested-by: Alex Benneé <alex.benee@linaro.org>
> >
> > --
> > v2
> >   Move 'page' inside the if (Comment from Paolo)
> > Message-Id: <20170724165125.29887-1-dgilbert@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> 
> Something somewhere along the line seems to have mangled the
> unicode characters in Alex's name :-(
> Also, Alex's email address is typoed, and what should be the
> '---' marker has been written as '--' so the below-the-fold waffle
> is still hanging around in the commit.
> 
> This doesn't seem worth rejecting the pull request on the
> eve of rc1 for, but it's still a bit sad :-(

Hmm yes, I think some of that's mine - the missing 'n' is certainly
my fault; and I may have got his two 'e's in the wrong order,
but I don't know what changed the encoding, that seems right on:
  https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg07417.html

Dave

> thanks
> -- PMM
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK