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From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: vdso: fix pvclock races with task migration
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:47:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150407124736.GA2637@potion.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5523BB51.8090703@redhat.com>

2015-04-07 13:11+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 02/04/2015 20:44, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> > If we were migrated right after __getcpu, but before reading the
> > migration_count, we wouldn't notice that we read TSC of a different
> > VCPU, nor that KVM's bug made pvti invalid, as only migration_count
> > on source VCPU is increased.
> > 
> > Change vdso instead of updating migration_count on destination.
> > 
> > Fixes: 0a4e6be9ca17 ("x86: kvm: Revert "remove sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations"")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> 
> Applying this, but removing the "Fixes" tag because a guest patch cannot
> fix a host patch (it can work around it or complement it).

I think it was correct.  Both are guest only, the revert just missed
some races.  (0a4e6be9ca17 has misleading commit message ...)

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-07 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-02 18:44 [PATCH] x86: vdso: fix pvclock races with task migration Radim Krčmář
2015-04-02 18:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-06 20:07   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-06 22:04     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-06 20:57 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-04-07 11:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-07 12:47   ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
2015-04-07 13:57     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-29 12:07 ` Patch "x86: vdso: fix pvclock races with task migration" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree gregkh

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