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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] AioContext: ctx->dispatching is
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To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: "kwolf@redhat.com" <kwolf@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "stefanha@redhat.com" <stefanha@redhat.com>

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:53:06 +0100
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:48:40PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Still: there is nothing in the registers that remotely points to that
> > area. X0 is the closest, but it'd take a big negative offset to get
> > there.
> > 
> > Is that a Linux kernel? or something else?
> 
> You're sure it's not this one?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194366
> That was caused by ftrace screwing up guest memory, so it was
> effectively running random code.  It is also fixed (by you in fact).

Don't think so. The bug you quote was the guest kernel being buggy, and
touching non-memory space.

This new issue seems different - this is not a Linux kernel, by the
look of it.

	M.
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