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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, groug@kaod.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/6] vhost: add regions to temporary list
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 20:43:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171214204310-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171214162731.50a95633@redhat.com>

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 04:27:31PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> Also it seems that we have a race in current code where
> region_del() unrefs memory region first and then by the
> commit time memory region could be gone since old flatview
> is unreffed before commit callback is called, but guest still
> uses old memory map until vhost_set_mem_table() is complete.
> We probably should unref deleted(old) sections after
> guest gets new memmap.

Care trying to post a patch for stable? Might be a good idea
to merge before this rework, for the sake of downstreams.

> 
> >  }
> >  
> >  static int vhost_virtqueue_set_addr(struct vhost_dev *dev,

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-14 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-13 18:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/6] Rework vhost memory region updates Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2017-12-13 18:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/6] vhost: Move log_dirty check Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2017-12-14 14:30   ` Igor Mammedov
2017-12-14 15:20     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-12-15 10:01       ` Igor Mammedov
2017-12-27 12:10       ` Igor Mammedov
2018-01-09 18:42         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-12-13 18:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/6] vhost: Simplify ring verification checks Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2017-12-14 14:07   ` Igor Mammedov
2017-12-15 12:24     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-12-13 18:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/6] vhost: Add temporary memory structure Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2017-12-14 15:15   ` Igor Mammedov
2017-12-15 13:15     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-12-13 18:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/6] vhost: add regions to temporary list Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2017-12-13 21:31   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-12-14 15:53     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-12-14 15:27   ` Igor Mammedov
2017-12-14 18:43     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-12-18 20:29       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-12-15 13:30     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-12-15 14:50       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-12-15 16:11         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-12-13 18:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 5/6] vhost: compare and flip in new memory region list Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2017-12-13 18:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 6/6] vhost: Clean out old vhost_set_memory and friends Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)

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