[PATCH v3] arm64: mm: Fix NOMAP page initialization

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Feb 3 10:16:27 PST 2017


On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 04:14:14PM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 17.01.17 19:16:56, Will Deacon wrote:
> > I can't really see the trend given that, for system time, your
> > pfn_valid_within results have a variance of ~9 and the early_pfn_valid
> > results have a variance of ~92. Given that the variance seems to come
> > about due to the reboots, I think we need more numbers to establish whether
> > the data sets end up largely overlapping or if they really are disjoint.
> 
> Assuming the numbers of both versions are not significant, please
> apply one or the other.

I'd rather apply the pfn_valid_within version, but please can you Ack the
patch first, since there was some confusion when it was posted about a
translation fault that was never reproduced.

Thanks,

Will



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