Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 9] x86/mm: Fixes to sharing, paging and p2m

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 14:51 -0500 on 01 Feb (1328107912), Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> This patch series aggregates a number of fixes to different areas of mm:
> 
> Sharing:
>  - Make sharing play nice with balloon
>  - Make physmap manipulations deall correctly with shared pages
>  - Make sharing debug calls use locked accessors and return useful information
> 
> Paging:
>  - Eliminate a needless state in the paging state machine
>  - Fix stats/accounting
>  - Fix page type check when nominating or evicting a page
> 
> P2M:
> This changes clear hurdles in advance of a fully-synchronized p2m
>  - Eliminate possibility of deadlock in nested lookups
>  - Reorder some locks taken by the sharing subsystem
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

 - #3 and #5 I'll comment on separately
 - #6 I applied, but updated to remove the outdated comment just above.
 - #8 I applied, but removed the type from the check, because it makes no
      sense with the >=. 
 - the others I appled as-is.

Cheers,

Tim.

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