Re: apparent regressions from TLB range flushing page set

From: Alex Shi
Date: Wed Aug 22 2012 - 04:54:41 EST


On 08/22/2012 03:39 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:

>>>> Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx> 08/22/12 5:24 AM >>>
>> On 08/20/2012 10:12 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> I was thought you have 'Agreed' for xen part code. :)
>
> I had agreed to it being done the right way, and I had pointed out the
> problem once. I can't say for sure that I looked at the most recent rev
> closely enough to spot the issue still being unfixed.
>
>>> For one, while TLB_FLUSH_ALL gets passed as 'end' argument to
>>> flush_tlb_others(), the Xen code was made to check its 'start'
>>> parameter.
>>
>> Do you mean need the following change? --untested.
>
> Yes. I'd question though whether for that special case it shouldn't be
> start _and_ end to get passed the special value.


Actually the special value is already there in old code.
so, what's your meaning of the question?

>
> Jan
>


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