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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
	Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [UPDATED] Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add pagetable allocation notifiers
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:01:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050824220146.GR7762@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430CE9F2.4070605@vmware.com>

* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote:
> Done.  Looks like you want empty_zero_page write protected too.  That 
> seems like a fine idea to me unless something really wants to do atomic 
> 64-bit reads on it.

Thanks, I added this set (minus the 3/5, which I already have) to the
virt-2.6 tree.

> The -1 is quite useless when you're going to shift  >> 12 anyways to get 
> a frame number to index into mem_map, which is why they are not there.  
> Plus, it just seems scary if you got it wrong - let's say you had a not 
> present page - not that you could, but now you are freeing a misaligned 
> address in the _previous_ page.  I really don't like that -1 at all.  I 
> will clean it up, but it does certainly deserve another patch.

Heh, that's exactly what I was concerned with from the patch (being on
the wrong page).  Thanks for clearing up my confusion.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-24 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-24 18:41 [PATCH 1/5] Add pagetable allocation notifiers Zachary Amsden
2005-08-24 19:48 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-24 21:13   ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-24 21:18     ` Chris Wright
2005-08-24 21:43       ` [UPDATED] " Zachary Amsden
2005-08-24 22:01         ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-08-24 21:47   ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-24 22:00     ` Chris Wright

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