linux-kernel - Re: remap allocator for per-CPU memory

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 00:43:26 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remap allocator for per-CPU memory

Jan Beulich wrote:
> Didn't the addition of this allocator introduce another case that
> needs special treatment in pageattr.c? Since large pages are used
> for mapping the allocated memory, but only part of the initially
> allocated large pages are actually retained, there's now the
> potential for TLB aliases with different cache attributes for those
> parts of these pages that get passed back through free_bootmem().

Hmmm.... yes, the large page mapping and the returned part of it would
alias each other.  What changes should be made for it?  Dunno much
about how pageattr works.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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