From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powernv: kvm: make _PAGE_NUMA take effect
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:43:31 +0200
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Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>,
	kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Liu ping fan <kernelfans@gmail.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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On 03.04.14 13:38, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 03.04.14 13:36, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>> On 03.04.14 04:36, Liu ping fan wrote:
>>> Hi Alex, could you help to pick up this patch? since  v3.14 kernel can
>>> enable numa fault for powerpc.
>>
>> What bad happens without this patch? We map a page even though it was 
>> declared to get NUMA migrated? What happens next?
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out whether I need to mark this with a stable 
>> tag for 3.14.
>
> Also, what about the other uses of pre_present()?

Oh how I love to reply to myself. The patch doesn't apply to the latest 
code anymore either. Also please rework the wording of your patch 
subject and patch description to explain the actual problem at hand.


Alex