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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fix some mmu/emulator atomicity issues (v2)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:52:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9E1F93.3010905@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100315101639.GA31813@amt.cnet>

On 03/15/2010 12:16 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:03:47AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> On 03/10/2010 04:50 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>      
>>> Currently when we emulate a locked operation into a shadowed guest page
>>> table, we perform a write rather than a true atomic.  This is indicated
>>> by the "emulating exchange as write" message that shows up in dmesg.
>>>
>>> In addition, the pte prefetch operation during invlpg suffered from a
>>> race.  This was fixed by removing the operation.
>>>
>>> This patchset fixes both issues and reinstates pte prefetch on invlpg.
>>>
>>> v2:
>>>     - fix truncated description for patch 1
>>>     - add new patch 4, which fixes a bug in patch 5
>>>        
>> No comments, but looks like last week's maintainer neglected to merge this.
>>      
> Looks fine. Can you please regenerate against next branch? (just
> pushed).
>    

Will send out shortly.

> For the invlpg prefetch it would be good to confirm the original bug is
> not reproducible.
>    

I tried to reproduce the problem with the original revert reverted, but 
couldn't.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-15 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 14:50 [PATCH 0/5] Fix some mmu/emulator atomicity issues (v2) Avi Kivity
2010-03-10 14:50 ` [PATCH 1/5] KVM: MMU: Consolidate two guest pte reads in kvm_mmu_pte_write() Avi Kivity
2010-03-10 14:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: Make locked operations truly atomic Avi Kivity
2010-03-10 14:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] KVM: Don't follow an atomic operation by a non-atomic one Avi Kivity
2010-03-10 14:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] KVM: MMU: Do not instantiate nontrapping spte on unsync page Avi Kivity
2010-03-10 14:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: MMU: Reinstate pte prefetch on invlpg Avi Kivity
2010-03-14  7:03 ` [PATCH 0/5] Fix some mmu/emulator atomicity issues (v2) Avi Kivity
2010-03-15 10:16   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-03-15 11:52     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-15 11:59 Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 16:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-03-16 18:22   ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-16 19:33     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-03-17  3:58       ` Avi Kivity

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