Hello,

In XenServer we have seen the watchdog occasionally triggering during
domain creation if 1GB pages are scrubbed in-place during physmap
population.  The following series attempt to mitigate this by limiting
the in-place scrubbing during allocation to 2M pages, but it has some
drawbacks, see the post-commit remarks in patch 2.

I'm hopping someone might have a better idea, or we converge we can't do
better than this for the time being.

Thanks, Roger.

Roger Pau Monne (2):
  xen/mm: add a NUMA node parameter to scrub_free_pages()
  xen/mm: limit non-scrubbed allocations to a specific order

 xen/arch/arm/domain.c   |  2 +-
 xen/arch/x86/domain.c   |  2 +-
 xen/common/memory.c     | 12 +++++++++
 xen/common/page_alloc.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 xen/include/xen/mm.h    | 12 ++++++++-
 5 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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2.51.0


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