From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] KVM: MMU: introduce gfn_to_page_atomic() and gfn_to_pfn_atomic()
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:49:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100616084900.GB17599@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C1885DF.80903@redhat.com>
> The page is fine, the page tables are not. Another task can munmap() the
> thing while is_hwpoison_address() is running.
Ok that boils down to me not seeing that source.
If it accesses the page tables yes then it's racy. But whoever
looked up the page tables in the first place should have
returned an -EFAULT. There's no useful address attached
to poison.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-16 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4C16E6ED.7020009@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-06-15 2:46 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: MMU: fix gfn got in kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn() Xiao Guangrong
[not found] ` <4C16E75F.6020003@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-06-15 2:46 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: MMU: fix conflict access permissions in direct sp Xiao Guangrong
[not found] ` <4C16E7AD.1060101@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-06-15 2:46 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: MMU: introduce gfn_to_page_atomic() and gfn_to_pfn_atomic() Xiao Guangrong
2010-06-15 11:22 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-16 7:59 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-16 8:05 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-16 8:49 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-06-16 9:40 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-16 10:51 ` huang ying
2010-06-16 11:08 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-17 6:46 ` Xiao Guangrong
[not found] ` <4C16E7F4.5060801@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-06-15 2:46 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: MMU: introduce mmu_topup_memory_cache_atomic() Xiao Guangrong
[not found] ` <4C16E82E.5010306@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-06-15 2:47 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: MMU: prefetch ptes when intercepted guest #PF Xiao Guangrong
2010-06-15 11:41 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-17 7:25 ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-06-17 8:07 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-17 9:04 ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-06-17 9:20 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-17 9:29 ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-06-16 3:55 ` Marcelo Tosatti
[not found] ` <4C16E867.8040606@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-06-15 2:47 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: MMU: trace pte prefetch Xiao Guangrong
2010-06-15 12:09 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-17 7:27 ` Xiao Guangrong
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