From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] use return value of domain_adjust_tot_pages() where feasible
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:44:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52960555.2040803@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5295BAD0020000780010765E@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
On 11/27/2013 08:26 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This is generally cheaper than re-reading ->tot_pages.
>
> While doing so I also noticed an improper use (lacking error handling)
> of get_domain() as well as lacks of ->is_dying checks in the memory
> sharing code, which the patch fixes at once. In the course of doing
> this I further noticed other error paths there pointlessly calling
> put_page() et al with ->page_alloc_lock still held, which is also being
> reversed.
Thus hiding two very important changes underneath a summary that looks
completely unimportant.
If this patch only did as the title suggests, I would question whether
it should be included for 4.4, since it seems to have little benefit.
Are the other two changes bug fixes?
In any case, the summary should indicate to someone just browsing
through what important changes might be inside.
-George
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-27 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-27 8:07 [PATCH 0/2] XSA-74 follow-ups Jan Beulich
2013-11-27 8:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] fix locking in offline_page() Jan Beulich
2013-11-27 10:01 ` Andrew Cooper
2013-11-27 10:05 ` Jan Beulich
2013-11-27 10:34 ` Tim Deegan
2013-11-27 10:43 ` Jan Beulich
2013-11-27 10:48 ` Tim Deegan
2013-11-27 10:53 ` Tim Deegan
2013-11-27 10:55 ` Jan Beulich
2013-11-28 10:25 ` Tim Deegan
2013-11-28 14:38 ` Jan Beulich
2013-11-28 15:11 ` Tim Deegan
2013-11-27 14:48 ` George Dunlap
2013-11-27 8:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] use return value of domain_adjust_tot_pages() where feasible Jan Beulich
2013-11-27 10:07 ` Andrew Cooper
2013-11-27 14:44 ` George Dunlap [this message]
2013-11-27 15:46 ` Jan Beulich
2013-11-27 16:51 ` George Dunlap
2013-11-27 10:42 ` [PATCH 0/2] XSA-74 follow-ups Tim Deegan
2013-12-03 9:20 ` Keir Fraser
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