From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: Ensure useful progress in alloc_l2_table() Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 12:37:08 +0100 Message-ID: <1372851428-3696-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Xen-devel Cc: Andrew Cooper , Keir , Jan Beulich List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org While debugging the issue which turned out to be XSA-58, a printk in this loop showed that it was quite easy to never make useful progress, because of consistently failing the preemption check. One single l2 entry is a reasonable amount of work to do, even if an action is pending, and also assures forwards progress across repeat continuations. Move the preemption check to the end of the loop, and adjust it so as to not cause a continuation if we have completed the l2 table. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper Cc: Keir Cc: Jan Beulich --- xen/arch/x86/mm.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c index 77dcafc..245838b 100644 --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c @@ -1278,13 +1278,6 @@ static int alloc_l2_table(struct page_info *page, unsigned long type, for ( i = page->nr_validated_ptes; i < L2_PAGETABLE_ENTRIES; i++ ) { - if ( preemptible && i && hypercall_preempt_check() ) - { - page->nr_validated_ptes = i; - rc = -EAGAIN; - break; - } - if ( !is_guest_l2_slot(d, type, i) || (rc = get_page_from_l2e(pl2e[i], pfn, d)) > 0 ) continue; @@ -1299,6 +1292,14 @@ static int alloc_l2_table(struct page_info *page, unsigned long type, } adjust_guest_l2e(pl2e[i], d); + + if ( preemptible && i != L2_PAGETABLE_ENTRIES + && hypercall_preempt_check() ) + { + page->nr_validated_ptes = i + 1; + rc = -EAGAIN; + break; + } } if ( rc >= 0 && (type & PGT_pae_xen_l2) ) -- 1.7.10.4