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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, tim@xen.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
	paul.durrant@citrix.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, keir@xen.org
Subject: Re: [for-4.7] x86/emulate: synchronize LOCKed instruction emulation
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 08:09:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570F3429.8070405@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <570F3121.2080009@bitdefender.com>

On 14/04/16 07:56, Razvan Cojocaru wrote:
> This indeed doesn't guard against LOCKed instructions being run in
> parallel with and without emulation, however that is a case that should
> almost never occur - at least not with introspection, where currently
> all emulation happens as a result of EPT faults - so either all
> instructions hitting a restricted page are emulated, or all ar run
> directly. As long as all emulation can safely run in parallel and all
> parallel non-emulation is also safe, it should be alright. But, yes,
> this patch doesn't cover the case you're mentioning.

What about grant pages? There could be parallel accesses from different
domains, one being introspected, the other not.


Juergen

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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-13 12:26 [for-4.7] x86/emulate: synchronize LOCKed instruction emulation Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14  4:35 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-14  5:56   ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14  6:09     ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2016-04-14  6:31       ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14  7:46         ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-14  8:01           ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-14  8:18             ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-14  8:25               ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14  8:07     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-14  8:09       ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14  9:08     ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14 15:33       ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-14 15:44     ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-14 16:00       ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14 16:11         ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-14  8:51   ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14 15:31     ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-14 15:40       ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14 10:35 ` David Vrabel
2016-04-14 11:43   ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14 15:40     ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-14 15:45       ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-14 16:09         ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-14 15:45       ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-14 16:08         ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-18 12:14           ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-18 16:45             ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-19 11:01               ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-19 16:35                 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-26 16:03                   ` George Dunlap
2016-04-26 17:23                     ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-04-26 17:39                       ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-27  6:25                         ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-27  7:36                           ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-27  6:22                       ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-27  7:14                         ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-05-03 14:20                           ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-05-03 14:30                             ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-03 14:41                               ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-05-03 15:13                                 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-04 11:32                                   ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-05-04 13:42                                     ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-05  9:25                                       ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-05-05 16:38                                         ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-13 15:27 ` Wei Liu
2016-05-13 15:51   ` Jan Beulich

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