[PATCH v2] powernv: kvm: make _PAGE_NUMA take effect

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.com
Thu Apr 3 22:43:31 EST 2014


On 03.04.14 13:38, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 03.04.14 13:36, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>> On 03.04.14 04:36, Liu ping fan wrote:
>>> Hi Alex, could you help to pick up this patch? since  v3.14 kernel can
>>> enable numa fault for powerpc.
>>
>> What bad happens without this patch? We map a page even though it was 
>> declared to get NUMA migrated? What happens next?
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out whether I need to mark this with a stable 
>> tag for 3.14.
>
> Also, what about the other uses of pre_present()?

Oh how I love to reply to myself. The patch doesn't apply to the latest 
code anymore either. Also please rework the wording of your patch 
subject and patch description to explain the actual problem at hand.


Alex



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