From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] KVM: do not release the error pfn
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:14:01 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120802131401.GD25344@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5014F1F2.3020202@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 04:18:58PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> After commit a2766325cf9f9, the error pfn is replaced by the
> error code, it need not be released anymore
>
> [ The patch is compiling tested for powerpc ]
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c | 1 -
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 6 +++---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu_audit.c | 4 +---
> arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 8 ++------
> virt/kvm/iommu.c | 1 -
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 14 ++++++++------
> 6 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c
> index c8f6c58..09ce5ac 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c
> @@ -524,7 +524,6 @@ static inline void kvmppc_e500_shadow_map(struct kvmppc_vcpu_e500 *vcpu_e500,
> if (is_error_pfn(pfn)) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "Couldn't get real page for gfn %lx!\n",
> (long)gfn);
> - kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
> return;
> }
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 320a781..949a5b8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -2498,7 +2498,9 @@ static void mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
> rmap_recycle(vcpu, sptep, gfn);
> }
> }
> - kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
> +
> + if (!is_error_pfn(pfn))
> + kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
> }
Can it ever be error_pfn? Seems a problem if so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-02 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-29 8:12 [PATCH 1/9] KVM: iommu: fix releasing unmapped page Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29 8:12 ` [PATCH 2/9] KVM: define kvm_fault_pfn statically Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-02 12:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-07-29 8:13 ` [PATCH 3/9] KVM: define kvm_hwpoison_pfn statically Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-02 12:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-07-29 8:14 ` [PATCH 4/9] KVM: define kvm_bad_pfn statically Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-02 13:15 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-03 0:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-08-03 8:13 ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29 8:15 ` [PATCH 5/9] KVM: inline is_*_pfn functions Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29 8:15 ` [PATCH 6/9] KVM: remove the unused declare Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29 8:16 ` [PATCH 7/9] KVM: define kvm_bad_page statically Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-02 12:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-07-29 8:18 ` [PATCH 8/9] KVM: do not release the error pfn Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29 11:33 ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-02 13:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2012-08-03 7:46 ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29 8:20 ` [PATCH 9/9] KVM: do not release the error page Xiao Guangrong
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