From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/paging: Prevent the guest from
	faulting on the same gfn when dying
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:32:44 +0000
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At 11:42 -0400 on 12 Mar (1331552563), Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> A crashing guest due to paging may hit an "endless" loop faulting repeatedly on
> the current paged-out gfn, until the toolstack comes around to killing the
> domain.
> 
> Unfortunately domain_crash at this point may not pause the vcpu due to the
> shutting_down flag, so we pause it explicitly when detecting the condition.


Applied, thanks.

Tim.