From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvmvapic: align start address as well as size
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:55:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F61BC83.2010700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F61008B.4070007@codemonkey.ws>
On 03/14/2012 10:33 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 09:50 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> The kvmvapic code remaps a section of ROM as RAM to allow the guest to
>> maintain state there. It is careful to align the section size to a page
>> boundary, to avoid creating subpages, but neglects to do the same for
>> the start address. These leads to an assert later on when the memory
>> core tries to create a page which is half RAM and half ROM.
>>
>> Fix by aligning the start address to a page boundary.
>>
>> This can be triggered by running qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -vga
>> none.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>
>
> Tested-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>
> Are you going to do a PULL request or do you want me to apply directly?
I forgot all about it, sorry.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-15 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 15:50 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvmvapic: align start address as well as size Avi Kivity
2012-03-06 16:01 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-03-14 20:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-15 9:55 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-03-15 13:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-14 21:18 ` Anthony Liguori
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