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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>, Cris Daniluk <cris.daniluk@gmail.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Xen 4.0 crashes with pvops kernel
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:56:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C83D3707.178AF%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C17932F0200007800006821@vpn.id2.novell.com>

On 15/06/2010 13:50, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:

> But even if we verify that the references come from some ACPI
> method(s), likely the only way to address this is to fix the kernel
> side error handling.
> 
> Keir, assuming these are reads only, would it make sense to permit
> Dom0 to map the IO-APIC space read-only? Perhaps even
> transparently converting writeable mappings to read-only ones
> (since drivers/acpi/osl.c tries to establish writeable mappings
> irrespective of the actual needs)? The obvious danger in doing
> so is that going forward there may appear fields in that page
> reads of which aren't side effect free...

Well, how come it works with other Linux kernels -- presumably they have
some extra error handling in the ACPI subsystem? Shouldn't that just be
added to this kernel?

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-15 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-14 22:10 Xen 4.0 crashes with pvops kernel Cris Daniluk
2010-06-15  6:54 ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTimslcbXQnihpIB0c-ceWbD7H-eyUY_BV2igyfzv@mail.gmail.com>
2010-06-15 12:50     ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-15 12:56       ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2010-06-15 13:20         ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-15 13:24           ` Cris Daniluk
2010-06-15 13:43             ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-15 13:49               ` Cris Daniluk
2010-06-15 14:13                 ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-15 14:35                   ` Cris Daniluk
2010-06-15 14:58                     ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-15 15:01                       ` Cris Daniluk
2010-06-15 15:21                         ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-15 16:18                           ` Boris Derzhavets
2010-06-15 14:17               ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-06-15 15:11                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-06-16 14:42                   ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-15 13:57           ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-15 15:15             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-06-16 14:36               ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-24  9:29             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-24 11:30               ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-24 21:25                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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