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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0 of 4] xentrace [v2]: non-contiguous allocation of per-cpu buffer
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:32:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <patchbomb.1305037955@localhost> (raw)

This series implements non-contiguous trace buffers.

There was an overflow in the offset calculation because it was stored in
an int. Also the calculation of the per-cpu buffer did not take the type
of the offset value into account. This was the reason why I ran into the
checks in bogus(). The crash in out_dealloc: was caused by the lack of
check for the offset value.

Regarding the math added to next_record() another array of pointers could be
added to remove the mfn_to_virt() calls. In my testing 9343 trace pages on 8
cpus are used. Such an array would required additional (9343*8*8)/1024=583Kb.
Which is not too much, given the amount of 291MB tracebuffers.
Such a change is not part of this series.

Olaf

             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-10 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-10 14:32 Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-05-10 14:32 ` [PATCH 1 of 4] xentrace: reduce trace buffer size to something mfn_offset can reach Olaf Hering
2011-05-26 10:05   ` George Dunlap
2011-05-10 14:32 ` [PATCH 2 of 4] xentrace: fix type of offset to avoid ouf-of-bounds access Olaf Hering
2011-05-26 10:05   ` George Dunlap
2011-05-10 14:32 ` [PATCH 3 of 4] xentrace: update __insert_record() to copy the trace record to individual mfns Olaf Hering
2011-05-26 10:06   ` George Dunlap
2011-05-10 14:32 ` [PATCH 4 of 4] xentrace: allocate non-contiguous per-cpu trace buffers Olaf Hering
2011-05-26 10:06   ` George Dunlap
2011-05-20  8:36 ` [PATCH 0 of 4] xentrace [v2]: non-contiguous allocation of per-cpu buffer Keir Fraser

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