From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>,
suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AMD IOMMU: don't free page table prematurely
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 16:55:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <538363D5.9070206@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538330AB0200007800015B2F@mail.emea.novell.com>
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On 26/05/2014 11:16, Jan Beulich wrote:
> iommu_merge_pages() still wants to look at the next level page table,
> the TLB flush necessary before freeing too happens in that function,
> and if it fails no free should happen at all. Hence the freeing must
> be done after that function returned successfully, not before it's
> being called.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
>
> --- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_map.c
> +++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_map.c
> @@ -691,8 +691,6 @@ int amd_iommu_map_page(struct domain *d,
> if ( !iommu_update_pde_count(d, pt_mfn[merge_level],
> gfn, mfn, merge_level) )
> break;
> - /* Deallocate lower level page table */
> - free_amd_iommu_pgtable(mfn_to_page(pt_mfn[merge_level - 1]));
>
> if ( iommu_merge_pages(d, pt_mfn[merge_level], gfn,
> flags, merge_level) )
> @@ -703,6 +701,9 @@ int amd_iommu_map_page(struct domain *d,
> domain_crash(d);
> return -EFAULT;
> }
> +
> + /* Deallocate lower level page table */
> + free_amd_iommu_pgtable(mfn_to_page(pt_mfn[merge_level - 1]));
> }
>
> out:
>
>
>
>
>
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2014-05-26 10:16 [PATCH] AMD IOMMU: don't free page table prematurely Jan Beulich
2014-05-26 15:55 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-05-28 5:20 ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
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