On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 10:45 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > But another trouble you have not mentioned is what happens to pages
> > with pending make-volatile that need to and/or have been made stable
> > in the meantime. They too need to be removed from this pending list.
>
> At the time where you walk the set of pages (pagevec?) to make
> volatile, you can check whether the page flags are still right.
A make volatile can be done anytime as long as the page is in page
cache. Before a page can be made stable the caller needs to make sure
that one of the conditions that prevent a make volatile becomes true.
So a page in the pending make-volatile array does not have to be removed
because a make stable has been done. It only has to be removed if it
gets freed.
> A page that was set to be marked volatile with the hypervisor,
> but later turned stable again would have that indicated in its
> page flags, right?
Several page flag bits and some other conditions like "has a mapping"
and "reference count is map count + 1". Most of the checks that need to
be done for make volatile are on page flags.
--
blue skies,
Martin.
Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
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