On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:48:52PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > XFS leaves stray mappings around when it vmaps memory to make it > virtually contigious. This upsets Xen if one of those pages is being > recycled into a pagetable, since it finds an extra writable mapping of > the page. > > This patch solves the problem in a brute force way, by making XFS > always eagerly unmap its mappings. David Chinner says this shouldn't > have any performance impact on filesystems with default block sizes; > it will only affect filesystems with large block sizes.
Looks fine, Jeremy. I'll pull this into our dev tree and it should get pushed with the .24 XFS merge (if someone doesn't pull these patches directly). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
