Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Replace _PAGE_NUMA with PAGE_NONE protections

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Tue Nov 18 2014 - 12:19:05 EST


On 11/18/2014 11:56 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>>> 4. Similarly, does the kernel boot properly without without patches?
>> >
>> > Yes, the kernel works fine without the patches both with and without fake
>> > numa.
>
> Hmm that is interesting. I am not sure how writeback_fid can be
> related. We use writeback fid to enable client side caching with 9p
> (cache=loose). We use this fid to write back dirty pages later. Can you
> share the qemu command line used, 9p mount options and the test details ?

I'm using kvmtool rather than qemu. rootfs is created via kernel parameters:

root=/dev/root rw rootflags=rw,trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L rootfstype=9p

The test is just running trinity, there's no 9p or mm specific test going on.

I've attached my .config.


Thanks,
Sasha

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