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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Define _PAGE_NUMA with unused physical address bits PMD and PTE levels
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 12:27:10PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 11:28 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >
> > I had considered the soft-dirty tracking usage of the same bit. I thought I'd
> > be able to swizzle around it or a further worst case of having soft-dirty and
> > automatic NUMA balancing mutually exclusive. Unfortunately upon examination
> > it's not obvious how to have both of them share a bit and I suspect any
> > attempt to will break CRIU. In my current tree, NUMA_BALANCING cannot be
> > set if MEM_SOFT_DIRTY which is not particularly satisfactory. Next on the
> > list is examining if _PAGE_BIT_IOMAP can be used.
>
> Didn't we smoke the last user of _PAGE_BIT_IOMAP?

Seems so, at least for non-kernel pages (not considering this bit references in
xen code, which i simply don't know but i guess it's used for kernel pages only).


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