Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] memory: synchronize dirty bitmap before unmapping a range

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 08/01/2011 01:21 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >
> >  Note that drop/add is always paired (i.e. the guest never sees an
> >  unmapped area), and we always map the full 64k even though cirrus code
> >  manages each 32k bank individually.  It looks optimal... we're probably
> >  not testing the same thing (either qemu or guest code).
>
> This is what my instrumentation revealed:
>
> map_linear_vram_bank 0
> map 0				(actually perform the mapping)
> map_linear_vram_bank 1
> map 1
> 4 a0000 0 7fe863a62000 1	(KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION)
> 4 a0000 10000 7fe863a72000 1
> run				(enter guest)
> map_linear_vram_bank 0
> map 0
> map_linear_vram_bank 1
> map 1
> 4 a0000 0 7fe863a72000 1
> 4 a0000 10000 7fe863a62000 1
> run
> map_linear_vram_bank 0
> map 0
> map_linear_vram_bank 1
> map 1
> 4 a0000 0 7fe863a62000 1
> run
> map_linear_vram_bank 0
> map 0
> map_linear_vram_bank 1
> map 1
> run
>
> So we suddenly get out of sync and enter the guest with an unmapped vram
> segment. I takes a long time (in number of map changes) until the region
> becomes mapped again.

I'll try to reproduce.  Yes, it looks like a bug in the core, perhaps in 
the symmetric-difference code.

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