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Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel bug from 3.0 (was phy disks and vifs timing out i

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 05:58:43PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 26/08/11 15:44, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > 
> > So while I am still looking at the hypervisor code to figure out why
> > it would give me [when trying to map a grant page]:
> > 
> > (XEN) mm.c:3846:d0 Could not find L1 PTE for address fbb42000
> 
> It is failing in guest_map_l1e() because the page for the vmalloc'd
> virtual address PTEs is not present.
> 
> The test that fails is:
> 
> (l2e_get_flags(l2e) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PSE)) != _PAGE_PRESENT
> 
> I think this is because the GNTTABOP_map_grant_ref hypercall is done
> when task->active_mm != &init_mm and alloc_vm_area() only adds PTEs into
> init_mm so when Xen looks in the page tables it doesn't find the entries
> because they're not there yet.
> 
> Putting a call to vmalloc_sync_all() after create_vm_area() and before
> the hypercall makes it work for me.  Classic Xen kernels used to have
> such a call.

That sounds quite reasonable.

> 
> This presumably works on some systems/configuration and not others
> depending on what else is using vmalloc(). i.e., if another kernel
> thread (?) calls vmalloc() etc. then there will be a page for vmalloc
> area PTEs and it will work.
> 
> I'll try and post a patch tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks to Ian Campbell for pointing me in the right direction.

Great! Thanks for hunting this one down.
> 
> David

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