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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Xen-devel List <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Subject: Re: Was: Request complete reversion of XSA-60 patches
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:43:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5284C56B.2080804@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5283E511.6000004@citrix.com>

Following a long discussion with Tim, it appears that despite the AMD
codepath being changed, there appear to be no relevant side effects as a
result, which reduces my main concern with the series.

However, in the process we identified more areas which need a cache flush.

vmx_ctxt_switch_from() needs a wbinvd() for the case where we service a
vmexit but get descheduled before returning.  There are also the
previously indicated areas which also need more cache invalidation.

There is also a wider problem with cached mappings from dom0, which are
identified but not introduced by this series.  Fixing this is still an
oustanding problem, with no sensible solution being apparent.

~Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-14 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-13 20:46 Request complete reversion of XSA-60 patches Andrew Cooper
2013-11-14 12:43 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2013-11-15  8:12   ` Was: " Jan Beulich

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