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authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2008-04-04 14:56:44 -0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2008-04-27 12:00:58 +0300
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tree344f9cbf54082161e54ba77164f55aec695b9403 /Documentation/vm/slub.txt
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KVM: MMU: prepopulate guest pages after write-protecting
Zdenek reported a bug where a looping "dmsetup status" eventually hangs on SMP guests. The problem is that kvm_mmu_get_page() prepopulates the shadow MMU before write protecting the guest page tables. By doing so, it leaves a window open where the guest can mark a pte as present while the host has shadow cached such pte as "notrap". Accesses to such address will fault in the guest without the host having a chance to fix the situation. Fix by moving the write protection before the pte prefetch. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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