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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Use an alternative to _PAGE_PROTNONE for _PAGE_NUMA v2
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:22:15AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:40 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> >
> > David, is your patchset going to be pushed in this merge window as expected?
>
> Apparently aiming for 3.16 right now.
>
> > That being said, these bits are precious, and if this ends up being a
> > case where "only Xen needs another bit" once again then Xen should
> > expect to get kicked to the curb at a moment's notice.
>
> Quite frankly, I don't think it's a Xen-only issue. The code was hard
> to figure out even without the Xen issues. For example, nobody ever
> explained to me why it
>
> (a) could be the same as PROTNONE on x86
> (b) could not be the same as PROTNONE in general
>
> I think the best explanation for it so far was from the little voices
> in my head that sang "It's a kind of Magic", and that isn't even
> remotely the best song by Queen.

Right; so initially when I started doing the numa scanning thing I
implemented b. I've never quite understood why that wasn't chosen; but
since Mel already got the PAGE_NUMA bits merged by the time I
re-surfaced, I didn't want to argue too much about it.


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