From: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
To: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Cc: andres@gridcentric.ca, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
olaf@aepfle.de, adin@gridcentric.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 9] x86/mm: Fixes to sharing, paging and p2m
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:32:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202123252.GG48883@ocelot.phlegethon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1328125912@xdev.gridcentric.ca>
At 14:51 -0500 on 01 Feb (1328107912), Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> This patch series aggregates a number of fixes to different areas of mm:
>
> Sharing:
> - Make sharing play nice with balloon
> - Make physmap manipulations deall correctly with shared pages
> - Make sharing debug calls use locked accessors and return useful information
>
> Paging:
> - Eliminate a needless state in the paging state machine
> - Fix stats/accounting
> - Fix page type check when nominating or evicting a page
>
> P2M:
> This changes clear hurdles in advance of a fully-synchronized p2m
> - Eliminate possibility of deadlock in nested lookups
> - Reorder some locks taken by the sharing subsystem
>
> Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
> Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
- #3 and #5 I'll comment on separately
- #6 I applied, but updated to remove the outdated comment just above.
- #8 I applied, but removed the type from the check, because it makes no
sense with the >=.
- the others I appled as-is.
Cheers,
Tim.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 19:51 [PATCH 0 of 9] x86/mm: Fixes to sharing, paging and p2m Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-01 19:51 ` [PATCH 1 of 9] x86/mm: Remove p2m_ram_paging_in Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-01 19:51 ` [PATCH 2 of 9] x86/mm: Don't fail to nominate for paging on type flag, rather look at type count Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-01 19:51 ` [PATCH 3 of 9] x86/mm: Refactor possibly deadlocking get_gfn calls Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-02 12:39 ` Tim Deegan
2012-02-02 13:44 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-01 19:51 ` [PATCH 4 of 9] Reorder locks used by shadow code in anticipation of synchronized p2m lookups Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-01 19:51 ` [PATCH 5 of 9] x86/mm: When removing/adding a page from/to the physmap, keep in mind it could be shared Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-02 12:41 ` Tim Deegan
2012-02-02 13:46 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-01 19:51 ` [PATCH 6 of 9] x86/mm: Fix balooning+sharing Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-01 19:51 ` [PATCH 7 of 9] x86/mm: Fix paging stats Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-01 19:52 ` [PATCH 8 of 9] x86/mm: Make sharing ASSERT check more accurate Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-01 19:52 ` [PATCH 9 of 9] x86/mm: Make debug_{gfn, mfn, gref} calls to sharing more useful and correct Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-02 12:32 ` Tim Deegan [this message]
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