From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Deegan Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 9] x86/mm: Fixes to sharing, paging and p2m Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:32:52 +0000 Message-ID: <20120202123252.GG48883@ocelot.phlegethon.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Andres Lagar-Cavilla Cc: andres@gridcentric.ca, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, olaf@aepfle.de, adin@gridcentric.ca List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 > Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell - #3 and #5 I'll comment on separately - #6 I applied, but updated to remove the outdated comment just above.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.