Re: [PATCH 35 of 36] x86: make pgd/pud/pmd/pte_none consistent

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Fri Feb 06 2009 - 10:46:02 EST


On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:29 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:31 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > The _none test is done differently for every level of the pagetable.
> > Standardize them by:
> >
> > 1: Use the native_X_val to extract the raw entry, with no need to go
> > via paravirt_ops, diff -r 1d0646d0d319 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h, and
> > 2: Compare with 0 rather than using a boolean !, since they are actually values
> > and not booleans.
>
> In a 32 bit Xen guest this one causes
>
> [ 8.354898] 1 multicall(s) failed: cpu 1

Spoke too soon, it's not as 100% reliably reproducing as I thought which
confused my bisection attempt. Will try and locate the real culprit...

Ian.

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Ian Campbell

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