From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM64: Kernel managed pages are only flushed
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 06:53:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140306065339.GA2975@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394018446-16738-1-git-send-email-Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com>
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:50:46PM +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> Kernel can only access pages which maps to managed memory.
> So flush only valid kernel pages.
>
> I observed kernel crash direct assigning a device using VFIO
> and found that it was caused because of accessing invalid page
I don't get this. Could you please share some kernel crash message to
see the backtrace? The __sync_icache_dcache() function is called from
set_pte_at() if the pte is valid, user and exec. If these are correct,
why does it crash? Actually, does the cache maintenance crash or
page_mapping()?
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-06 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-05 11:20 [PATCH] ARM64: Kernel managed pages are only flushed Bharat Bhushan
2014-03-06 6:53 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2014-03-06 9:33 ` Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
2014-03-12 14:41 ` Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
2014-03-12 14:56 ` Will Deacon
2014-03-12 16:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-03-12 17:26 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-03-12 20:12 ` Laura Abbott
2014-03-13 11:00 ` Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
2014-03-26 3:16 ` Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
2014-03-27 10:55 ` Catalin Marinas
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