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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU commit 04bf2526ce breaks use of xen-mapcache
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:47:59 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <349062488.18968647.1501004879602.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170725171302.GK1587@perard.uk.xensource.com>

> Hi,
> 
> Commits 04bf2526ce (exec: use qemu_ram_ptr_length to access guest ram)
> start using qemu_ram_ptr_length() instead of qemu_map_ram_ptr().
> That result in calling xen_map_cache() with lock=true, but this mapping
> is never invalidated.
> So QEMU use more and more RAM until it stop working for a reason or an
> other. (crash if host have little RAM or stop emulating but no crash)
> 
> I don't know if calling xen_invalidate_map_cache_entry() in
> address_space_read_continue() and address_space_write_continue() is the
> right answer.  Is there something better to do ?

I think it's correct for dma to be true... maybe add a lock argument to
qemu_ram_ptr_length, so that make address_space_{read,write}_continue can
pass 0 and everyone else passes 1?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-25 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-25 17:13 [Qemu-devel] QEMU commit 04bf2526ce breaks use of xen-mapcache Anthony PERARD
2017-07-25 17:47 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-07-25 18:08   ` Stefano Stabellini
2017-07-25 18:45     ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-07-25 19:04       ` Stefano Stabellini
2017-07-25 19:42         ` Paolo Bonzini

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