From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, stefano.stabellini@citrix.com,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.6] tools/libxc: linux: Don't use getpagesize() when unmapping the grants
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:48:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1439297334.9747.238.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150807214509.GA10919@zion.uk.xensource.com>
On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 22:45 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 07:53:55PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> > The grants are based on the Xen granularity (i.e 4KB). While the
> > function
> > to map grants for Linux (linux_gnttab_grant_map) is using the correct
> > size (XC_PAGE_SIZE), the unmap one (linux_gnttab_munmap) is using
> > getpagesize().
> >
> > On domain using a page granularity different than Xen (this is the case
> > for AARCH64 guest using 64KB page), the unmap will be called with the
> > wrong size.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
> >
> > ---
> > Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> > Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> > Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> >
>
> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> I think this is a bug fix and should be applied for 4.6.
Agreed.
WRT to backports for 4.5 I'd appreciate being given a full list of required
fixes once everything is in place and working for 4.6/devbranch rather than
my tracking it piecemeal.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-11 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-07 18:53 [PATCH for-4.6] tools/libxc: linux: Don't use getpagesize() when unmapping the grants Julien Grall
2015-08-07 21:45 ` Wei Liu
2015-08-11 12:48 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-08-12 10:07 ` Julien Grall
2015-08-13 10:31 ` Ian Campbell
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