Re: [Xen-devel] 2.6.27 - SMP enabled, but only 1 CPU

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 16:23:22 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> a "cleanup" impact line is only added if the change is not intended to
>> have any side-effects whatsoever.
>>
>> We can drop it but it would be really nice to figure out what's going
>> on. In a very quick late-night look i cannot see anything particularly
>> weird about it, but based on the type of changes it does there are
>> three leading candidates: lost high 32 bits, zero extend problem, or
>> incorrect types.
>
> Yeah, I couldn't see anything either. It's a reasonable cleanup (I
> never did understand that struct page * cast), but its always nicer
> when cleanups don't break working code ;).

Would be nice to have a look at the vmlinux delta with the patch
reverted, on the .config that breaks. By all means the object code
should be the same.

Ingo
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