konrad.wilk at oracle
Aug 13, 2012, 1:42 PM
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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Document pagetable_reserve PVOP and enforce a better semantic
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 03:17:05PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote:
> When looking for documenting the pagetable_reserve PVOP, I realized that it
> assumes start == pgt_buf_start. I think this is not semantically right
> (even if with the current code this should not be a problem in practice) and
> what we really want is to extend the logic in order to do the RO -> RW
> convertion also for the range [pgt_buf_start, start).
> This patch then implements this missing conversion, adding some smaller
> cleanups and finally provides documentation for the PVOP.
> Please look at 2/2 for more details on how the comment is structured.
> If we get this right we will have a reference to be used later on for others
> PVOPs.
> A preliminary version of this patch has been already reviewed by
> Stefano Stabellini.
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> Attilio Rao (2):
> XEN, X86: Improve semantic support for pagetable_reserve PVOP
> Document the semantic of the pagetable_reserve PVOP
The titles need a prefix, like 'x86' or 'xen/x86'.
s/PVOP/PVOPS/
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> arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
> arch/x86/mm/init.c | 4 ++++
> arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
> 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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> 1.7.2.5
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