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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: "Ren, Yongjie" <yongjie.ren@intel.com>
Cc: "Shi, Alex" <alex.shi@intel.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: fix logical error in tlb flushing
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:33:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120905143350.GD5844@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1B4B44D9196EFF41AE41FDA404FC0A1018E35D@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:41:37AM +0000, Ren, Yongjie wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shi, Alex
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 1:35 PM
> > To: Jan Beulich
> > Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; tglx@linutronix.de; mingo@redhat.com;
> > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; hpa@zytor.com; Ren, Yongjie
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: fix logical error in tlb flushing
> > 
> > On 08/25/2012 03:45 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > 
> > >>>> On 24.08.12 at 20:17, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> > <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > >> 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>
> > 
> Tested-by: Yongjie Ren <yongjie.ren@intel.com>
> 
> > 
> > CC to Yongjie,
> > Could you like to test this patch on PV guest
> > 
> Xen Dom0 and a PV guest kernel with this patch can boot up correctly.

OK, applied for v3.6

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-05 14:44 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
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 [this message]
2012-09-05  8:04         ` Jan Beulich

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