Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen: fix pinning when not using split pte locks

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Sep 10 2008 - 04:11:08 EST



* Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> We only pin PTE pages when using split PTE locks, so don't do the
>> pin/unpin when attaching/detaching pte pages to a pinned pagetable.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
> Cheers Jeremy - a better solution. Worth mentioning - this doesn't
> exist peacefully alongside my patch 965fe78fe
>
> Ingo - could you revert that please?

yes - that looked odd and un-ack-ed anyway - but i applied it [it's at
the tail of x86/xen and easy to zap] because it solved a BUG_ON().

Btw., i suggested a different workflow to you in the past: please run
Xen patches by Jeremy and ask him for Acks and Cc: him - thanks.

Ingo
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