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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: Xiaowei Yang <xiaowei.yang@intel.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix domheap structure allocation when	 NUMA=on
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:47:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C36646.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49C35517.7040706@intel.com>

>>> "Yang, Xiaowei" <xiaowei.yang@intel.com> 20.03.09 09:34 >>>
>Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> "Yang, Xiaowei" <xiaowei.yang@intel.com> 20.03.09 06:05 >>>
>>> DIRECTMAP_VIRT_END can't be passed to virt_to_mfn(), as it's just beyond 
>>> direct map boundary and triggers ASSERT very early at boot time.
>> 
>> While I agree to the analysis, I would think that this
>> 
>> +              mfn + needed <= virt_to_mfn(DIRECTMAP_VIRT_END - PAGE_SIZE) )
>> 
>> should rather be
>> 
>> +              mfn + needed <= virt_to_mfn(DIRECTMAP_VIRT_END - 1) + 1 )
>> 
>virt_to_mfn(DIRECTMAP_VIRT_END - 1) is equal to 

Depending on whether DIRECTMAP_VIRT_END is the last byte or the first
following byte. Using "- 1" avoids such a dependency.

>virt_to_mfn(DIRECTMAP_VIRT_END - PAGE_SIZE). Why +1? We use '<=' here.

Because on the left side of the comparison we also calculate the first
following mfn, not the last included one.

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-20  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-20  5:05 [PATCH] Fix domheap structure allocation when NUMA=on Yang, Xiaowei
2009-03-20  8:15 ` Jan Beulich
2009-03-20  8:34   ` Yang, Xiaowei
2009-03-20  8:47     ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2009-03-20  8:56       ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-20  9:27         ` Jan Beulich
2009-03-20  9:32           ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-24 10:48       ` Yang, Xiaowei
2009-03-24 10:55         ` Jan Beulich

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