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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: fix logical error in tlb flushing
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:17:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120824181721.GC15167@konrad-lan.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5037A8E7020000780008A78B@nat28.tlf.novell.com>

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:16:39PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 24.08.12 at 10:55, Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> wrote:
> > While TLB_FLUSH_ALL gets passed as 'end' argument to
> > flush_tlb_others(), the Xen code was made to check its 'start'
> > parameter. That may give a incorrect op.cmd to MMUEXT_INVLPG_MULTI
> > instead of MMUEXT_TLB_FLUSH_MULTI. Then it causes some page can not
> > be flushed from TLB.
> > 
> > This patch fixed this issue.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

How can I reproduce this and should this also go to stable@kernel.org?
> 
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/xen/mmu.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> > index b65a761..5141d80 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> > @@ -1283,7 +1283,7 @@ static void xen_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask 
> > *cpus,
> >  	cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), to_cpumask(args->mask));
> >  
> >  	args->op.cmd = MMUEXT_TLB_FLUSH_MULTI;
> > -	if (start != TLB_FLUSH_ALL && (end - start) <= PAGE_SIZE) {
> > +	if (end != TLB_FLUSH_ALL && (end - start) <= PAGE_SIZE) {
> >  		args->op.cmd = MMUEXT_INVLPG_MULTI;
> >  		args->op.arg1.linear_addr = start;
> >  	}
> > -- 
> > 1.7.5.4
> > 
> > .
> 
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-24 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-24  8:55 [PATCH] xen: fix logical error in tlb flushing Alex Shi
2012-08-24 15:16 ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-24 18:17   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2012-08-24 19:45     ` Jan Beulich
2012-09-05  5:34       ` Alex Shi
2012-09-05  5:41         ` Ren, Yongjie
2012-09-05 14:33           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-05  8:04         ` Jan Beulich

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