Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm: Don't request scrubbing until dom0 is running

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>]

>>> On 29.08.17 at 15:27, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 08/29/2017 09:22 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 29.08.17 at 13:56, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 04:40:28PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>> There is no need to scrub pages freed during dom0 construction
>>>> since heap will be scrubbed once dom0 is ready (by scrub_heap_pages()).
>>>>
>>>> Since boot_scrub_done will not be set if boot-time scrubbing is off we
>>>> also check for domain state.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  xen/common/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/xen/common/page_alloc.c b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
>>>> index 34a7992..b93dae9 100644
>>>> --- a/xen/common/page_alloc.c
>>>> +++ b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
>>>> @@ -2259,7 +2259,7 @@ void free_domheap_pages(struct page_info *pg, unsigned 
> int order)
>>>>               */
>>>>              scrub = !!d->is_dying;
>>>>  #else
>>>> -            scrub = true;
>>>> +            scrub = boot_scrub_done || !!d->is_dying;
>>> It seems that the debug and non-debug case should use the same
>>> predicate.
>> No - boot_scrub_done doesn't even exist in the other case.
> 
> 
> I read Wei's message as suggesting
> 
>         scrub = !!d->is_dying;
>     #ifdef CONFIG_SCRUB_DEBUG
>         scrub |= boot_scrub_done;
>     #endif
> 
> 
> which I could do.

Yes, but please consider the "#define boot_scrub_done 0" approach
too.

Jan


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