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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/5] just realized that it's broken


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:35:56 +0000
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  • Delivery-date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:36:10 -0800
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/5] just realized that it's broken

Fortunately I think it can be got rid of and probably at little or no
performance cost. I will take a look maybe next week.

 -- Keir

On 30/01/2009 10:48, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch was moving the cpumask out of struct page_info into the page
> itself, but I just realized that this it not valid, since the purpose of the
> mask
> is to avoid a later TLB flush, hence the base assumption is that the page
> might still be in the TLB of some CPU, thus making it possible for a mis-
> behaved guest to still write to that page.
> 
> Sorry for the mis-numbering,
> Jan
> 
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