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From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"arjan@linux.intel.com" <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"andi@firstfloor.org" <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86: Handle error returns in set_memory_*
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:29:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080930212949.GL15609@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809301036.05207.elendil@planet.nl>

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:36:04AM -0700, Frans Pop wrote:
> As I mentioned before, I only tested with the first of the two patches
> (as you asked me to) and that solved the artifacts for me. What's the
> explanation behind that?
> 
> What is the relationship between the first and second patch?

Frans, There is no relationship between the two patches. First patch
(track memtype for RAM in page struct) will fix the behavior you
observed and the second patch addresses some error conditions which
were noticed by Venki.

Both should have been pushed independently.

thanks,
suresh

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-13  0:00 [patch 0/2] PAT fix/optimization Venkatesh Pallipadi
2008-09-13  0:00 ` [patch 1/2] x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct Venkatesh Pallipadi
2008-09-13 17:03   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-14 13:29     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 14:18       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-14 14:22         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-23 21:46           ` Venki Pallipadi
2008-09-23 21:59             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-24 15:53               ` [patch 1/2] x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct - v3 Venki Pallipadi
2008-09-27 17:59                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30  7:28                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-30 11:21                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30 21:14                     ` Suresh Siddha
2008-10-01  9:29                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-02  2:27                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-13 17:24   ` [patch 1/2] x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct Frans Pop
2008-09-14 14:12   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-23 21:48     ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-09-13  0:00 ` [patch 2/2] x86: Handle error returns in set_memory_* Venkatesh Pallipadi
2008-09-14 13:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 14:35     ` Frans Pop
2008-09-14 14:10   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30  8:36     ` Frans Pop
2008-09-30 21:29       ` Suresh Siddha [this message]

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