From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Eduardo Pereira Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>, H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6 of 7] x86: move pud/pgd functions into common asm/pgalloc.h
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:49:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A458AD.6050409@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080202104048.GA24605@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> yes but the early hang is very real so either my hardware is stubbornly
> ignoring that your patch is pure code movement (in which case i'll have
> to have a word or two with my hardware), or your patch is perhaps wrong
> somewhere ;-)
>
I see what it is. set_pud on 32-bit needs only _PAGE_PRESENT, but for
64-bit it needs _PAGE_TABLE.
> generally you can protect yourself against full reverts by separating
> the NOP changes from the non-NOP changes. If a change is small enough i
> might spot the bug immediately and fix it - otherwise i have to undo
> your whole series to keep the x86.git ball rolling. I thought we went
> through this excercise a few times already :-/ ...
>
This one was supposed to be pure motion, but my eyeball diff failed me.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-02 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-02 9:05 [PATCH 0 of 7] x86: more pgalloc unification Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 9:05 ` [PATCH 1 of 7] x86: convert pgalloc_64.h from macros to inlines Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 9:13 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-02 9:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-02 9:05 ` [PATCH 2 of 7] x86: add common mm/pgtable.c Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 10:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-02 11:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 13:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-02 16:25 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 17:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-02 18:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 9:05 ` [PATCH 3 of 7] x86: put paravirt stubs into common asm/pgalloc.h Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 9:05 ` [PATCH 4 of 7] x86: move pte functions " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 9:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-02 9:05 ` [PATCH 5 of 7] x86: move pmd " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 9:05 ` [PATCH 6 of 7] x86: move pud/pgd " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 10:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-02 10:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-02 10:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-02 10:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-02 11:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-02-02 10:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-02 9:05 ` [PATCH 7 of 7] x86: move all the pgd_list handling to one place Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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