Andi Kleen wrote:
>> ; it does
>> seem perfectly acceptable though for the mm code to use kmap or vmap
>> (not kmap_atomic) internally somewhere in the pagetable code.
>>
>
> i386 does it all the time for highmem pagetables in fact.
>
Yes, it uses kmap_atomic(_pte) all the time. Is that w
Andi Kleen wrote:
>> I agree. The patch is a nop. I just got overly paranoid. The whole
>> thing is just very prone to bugs.
>>
> So do we need a patch for .23 or not?
>
Forgot this bit. No, I think the upshot is that it isn't necessary (nor
Rusty's).
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>I agree. The patch is a nop. I just got overly paranoid. The whole
>thing is just very prone to bugs.
So do we need a patch for .23 or not?
>; it does
> seem perfectly acceptable though for the mm code to use kmap or vmap
> (not kmap_atomic) internally somewhere in the pagetable code.
i386 do
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 06:37 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 22:46 -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > I recently sent off a fix for lazy vmalloc faults which can happen under
> > paravirt when lazy mode is enabled. Unfortunately, I jumped the gun a
> > bit on fixing this. I neg
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 22:46 -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> I recently sent off a fix for lazy vmalloc faults which can happen under
> paravirt when lazy mode is enabled. Unfortunately, I jumped the gun a
> bit on fixing this. I neglected to notice that since the new call to
> flush the MMU upd
Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 14:42 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>> Rusty Russell wrote:
>>
>>> static inline void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
>>> {
>>> - PVOP_VCALL1(set_lazy_mode, PARAVIRT_LAZY_FLUSH);
>>> + if (unlikely(__get_cpu_var(paravirt_lazy_mode) ==
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:05 -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 02:33 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > + BUG_ON(get_lazy_mode() && !(mode == PARAVIRT_LAZY_NONE |
> > + | mode == PARAVIRT_LAZY_FLUSH));
>
> That's a pretty strange line break.
Sorry,
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 02:33 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 14:42 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > static inline void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
> > > {
> > > - PVOP_VCALL1(set_lazy_mode, PARAVIRT_LAZY_FLUSH);
> > > + if (unlikely(__get_cpu_
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 14:42 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > static inline void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
> > {
> > - PVOP_VCALL1(set_lazy_mode, PARAVIRT_LAZY_FLUSH);
> > + if (unlikely(__get_cpu_var(paravirt_lazy_mode) == PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU))
> > + a
Rusty Russell wrote:
> static inline void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
> {
> - PVOP_VCALL1(set_lazy_mode, PARAVIRT_LAZY_FLUSH);
> + if (unlikely(__get_cpu_var(paravirt_lazy_mode) == PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU))
> + arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
> }
>
This changes the semantics a b
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 14:09 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > Do you agree it is better to be safe than sorry in this case? The
> > kind of bugs introduced by getting this wrong are really hard to find,
> > and I would rather err on the side of an extra increment and de
Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Do you agree it is better to be safe than sorry in this case? The
> kind of bugs introduced by getting this wrong are really hard to find,
> and I would rather err on the side of an extra increment and decrement
> of preempt_count that causing a regression.
I think this pa
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 23:59 -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Hm. Doing any kind of lazy-state operation with preemption enabled is
> > fundamentally meaningless. How does it get into a preemptable state
> >
>
> Agree 100%. It is the lazy mode flush that might hap
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Hm. Doing any kind of lazy-state operation with preemption enabled is
fundamentally meaningless. How does it get into a preemptable state
Agree 100%. It is the lazy mode flush that might happen when preempt is
enabled, but lazy mode is disabled. In that case,
Zachary Amsden wrote:
> I recently sent off a fix for lazy vmalloc faults which can happen
> under paravirt when lazy mode is enabled. Unfortunately, I jumped the
> gun a bit on fixing this. I neglected to notice that since the new
> call to flush the MMU update queue is called from the page faul
I recently sent off a fix for lazy vmalloc faults which can happen under
paravirt when lazy mode is enabled. Unfortunately, I jumped the gun a
bit on fixing this. I neglected to notice that since the new call to
flush the MMU update queue is called from the page fault handler, it can
be pre-e
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