Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] kvm,x86: RCU based table free

From: Nikunj A Dadhania
Date: Wed Aug 01 2012 - 08:12:58 EST


Hi Stefano,

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:23:37 +0100, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 18:34 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> > > > PeterZ, is 7/7 alright to be picked?
> > >
> > > Yeah, I guess it is.. I haven't had time to rework my tlb series yet
> > > though. But these two patches together should make it work for x86.
> > >
> >
> > Good. Do you think they are OK for 3.5-rc2? Or is it better to wait for
> > 3.6?
> >
>
> Hello Nikunj,
> what happened to this patch series?
> In particular I am interested in the following two patches:
>
> kvm,x86: RCU based table free
> Flush page-table pages before freeing them
>
> do you still intend to carry on with the development? Is there anything
> missing that is preventing them from going upstream?
>
I have posted a v3 on the kvm-list:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg76955.html

I am carrying the above two patches(with one fix) in my series as well
for completeness.

I have picked up the patches from PeterZ's "Unify TLB gather
implementations -v3"
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/81278

Regards
Nikunj

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