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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: Is: EPT violations. Was:Re: Problems with pci/vga passthrough
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:28:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ddff0e8d-a33f-98e6-969b-68ce17e86584@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58878ABA020000780013373E@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On 01/24/2017 11:11 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 24.01.17 at 16:59, <didi.debian@cknow.org> wrote:
>> Reported it at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=852324 but 
>> given Ben Hutchings' reaction it seems to be a Xen problem after all.
>>
>> Relevant part of earlier attached dmesg:
>>
>> [   13.588386] WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 1 at 
>> /build/linux-zDY19G/linux-4.8.15/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:225 note_page+0x5e8/0x790
>> [   13.588388] x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address ffff880000000000/0xffff880000000000
>> ...
>> [   13.608867] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, 4602 W+X pages found.
> Now this is a know issue, but I'm pretty convinced one that's entirely
> unrelated to your problem.


I thought we fixed this. That's what is_hypervisor_range() was
introduced for, and I haven't seen this warning since then.


-boris

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-24 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-18  1:37 Problems with pci/vga passthrough Diederik de Haas
2017-01-18 16:20 ` Is: EPT violations. Was:Re: " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-01-18 16:42   ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]     ` <1890797.J70arCvF62@bagend>
2017-01-19  8:18       ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-18 16:47   ` George Dunlap
2017-01-22 18:30   ` Diederik de Haas
2017-01-24 15:59     ` Diederik de Haas
2017-01-24 16:11       ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-24 17:24         ` Diederik de Haas
2017-01-24 18:28         ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2017-01-24 18:44           ` Diederik de Haas
2017-01-24 18:51             ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-01-24 21:43               ` Boris Ostrovsky

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