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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: [patch 14/19] xfs: eagerly remove vmap mappings to avoid upsetting Xen
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:15:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071115061506.GO7980@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071115061415.GA7980@kroah.com>

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-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>

patch ace2e92e193126711cb3a83a3752b2c5b8396950 in mainline.

XFS leaves stray mappings around when it vmaps memory to make it
virtually contigious.  This upsets Xen if one of those pages is being
recycled into a pagetable, since it finds an extra writable mapping of
the page.

This patch solves the problem in a brute force way, by making XFS
always eagerly unmap its mappings.

[ Stable: This works around a bug in 2.6.23.  We may come up with a
better solution for mainline, but this seems like a low-impact fix for
the stable kernel. ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: XFS masters <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: Morten =?utf-8?q?B=C3=B8geskov?= <xen-users@morten.bogeskov.dk>
Cc: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>


---
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
@@ -187,6 +187,19 @@ free_address(
 {
 	a_list_t	*aentry;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
+	/*
+	 * Xen needs to be able to make sure it can get an exclusive
+	 * RO mapping of pages it wants to turn into a pagetable.  If
+	 * a newly allocated page is also still being vmap()ed by xfs,
+	 * it will cause pagetable construction to fail.  This is a
+	 * quick workaround to always eagerly unmap pages so that Xen
+	 * is happy.
+	 */
+	vunmap(addr);
+	return;
+#endif
+
 	aentry = kmalloc(sizeof(a_list_t), GFP_NOWAIT);
 	if (likely(aentry)) {
 		spin_lock(&as_lock);

-- 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20071115054813.977066477@mini.kroah.org>
     [not found] ` <20071115061415.GA7980@kroah.com>
2007-11-15  6:14   ` [patch 11/19] xen: add batch completion callbacks Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:15   ` [patch 12/19] xen: deal with stale cr3 values when unpinning pagetables Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:15   ` [patch 13/19] xen: fix incorrect vcpu_register_vcpu_info hypercall argument Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:15   ` Greg KH [this message]

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