* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Zachary Amsden wrote: > >I'd rather keep it, even with bitrot - it was non-trivial to get > >correct, and found many surprises in the code; most notably, it can > >detect > > > >1) PTE writes to pages not declared as page tables > >2) Failure to allocate or de-allocate page tables using the > >paravirt-ops API > >3) PTE writes using the wrong level operations > > > >These are most useful properties; in fact, I would like to extend the > >code for 64-bit paravirt-ops and 4-level paging, so rather not kill it > >until then. > > > >I never merged the whole bit upstream because it added a field to > >struct page. > > Hm, is that a big problem? It would be OK for a debug config option, > wouldn't it? Also, it doesn't seem particularly vmi-specific. Could it > be made part of the pvops infrastructure?
I'm pretty sure lguest64 hit some of the problems Zach is trying to catch, so should generalize well-enough. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
