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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: tim@xen.org, sstabellini@kernel.org, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
	George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/8] mm: Keep heap accessible to others while scrubbing
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:11:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e2a2b6e-4a2e-e912-2cc4-b47a0e9f7f89@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <593E6D300200007800161D0D@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>


>> @@ -1175,6 +1258,8 @@ static void free_heap_pages(
>>          if ( page_state_is(&pg[i], offlined) )
>>              tainted = 1;
>>  
>> +        pg[i].u.free.scrub_state = 0;
> Is this really needed for every page in the buddy?
>

The concern here is that is we break the buddy (in alloc_heap_pages(),
for example) this may still be set. But perhaps I just should be careful
about clearing this on the head when a (sub-)buddy is added to the heap.

-boris

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-12 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-19 15:50 [PATCH v4 0/8] Memory scrubbing from idle loop Boris Ostrovsky
2017-05-19 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] mm: Place unscrubbed pages at the end of pagelist Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-09 14:50   ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-09 20:07     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-12  6:50       ` Jan Beulich
2017-05-19 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] mm: Extract allocation loop from alloc_heap_pages() Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-09 15:08   ` Jan Beulich
2017-05-19 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] mm: Scrub pages in alloc_heap_pages() if needed Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-09 15:22   ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-09 20:55     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-12  6:54       ` Jan Beulich
2017-05-19 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] mm: Scrub memory from idle loop Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-12  8:08   ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-12 17:01     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-12 21:28       ` Dario Faggioli
2017-06-13  8:19         ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-13 18:39           ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-13 20:36             ` Dario Faggioli
2017-06-13 21:54               ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-14  9:18             ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-13  8:12       ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-13 18:20         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-14  9:17           ` Jan Beulich
2017-05-19 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] spinlock: Introduce spin_lock_cb() Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-12  8:23   ` Jan Beulich
2017-05-19 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] mm: Keep heap accessible to others while scrubbing Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-12  8:30   ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-12 17:11     ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2017-05-19 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] mm: Print number of unscrubbed pages in 'H' debug handler Boris Ostrovsky
2017-05-19 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] mm: Make sure pages are scrubbed Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-12  8:43   ` Jan Beulich

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