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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:48:45 +0000
From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
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To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Subject: [PATCH] xen: Properly account for _PAGE_NUMA
 during xen pte translations
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On 04/02/14 11:44, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Steven Noonan forwarded a users report where they had a problem starting
> vsftpd on a Xen paravirtualized guest, with this in dmesg:
> 
[...]
> 
> The issue could not be reproduced under an HVM instance with the same kernel,
> so it appears to be exclusive to paravirtual Xen guests. He bisected the
> problem to commit 1667918b (mm: numa: clear numa hinting information on
> mprotect) that was also included in 3.12-stable.
> 
> The problem was related to how xen translates ptes because it was not
> accounting for the _PAGE_NUMA bit. This patch splits pte_present to add
> a pteval_present helper for use by xen so both bare metal and xen use
> the same code when checking if a PTE is present.

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>

Thanks.

David
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