[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Re: about fixup_page_fault

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Applied as c/s 18927, thanks. Will consider for backport to 3.3.2 if it
holds up okay in xen-unstable.

 -- Keir

On 17/12/2008 11:19, "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Don't ever call the shadow code to fix a page fault in an external-mode
> guest if the fault came from Xen; it would be making changes to the
> wrong pagetables, potentially causing a pagefault loop in Xen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> At 11:08 +0000 on 17 Dec (1229512101), Keir Fraser wrote:
>> I certainly think that something like the patch you proposed would cause a
>> better failure mode.
>> 
>> Kevin: Can you try out what Tim proposed and if it indeed makes things
>> better (at least, you get a proper crash!) we should get that checked in.
>> 
>>  -- Keir



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