Joerg Roedel wrote:
The assertion which the attached patch removes fails sometimes. Removing this assertion is the alternative solution to this problem ;-) From ca45f3a2e45cd7e76ca624bb1098329db8ff83ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:51:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] kvm mmu: remove assertion in kvm_mmu_alloc_page Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index d93ecec..b226973 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -802,7 +802,6 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_alloc_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, set_page_private(virt_to_page(sp->spt), (unsigned long)sp); list_add(&sp->link, &vcpu->kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sp->oos_link); - ASSERT(is_empty_shadow_page(sp->spt)); bitmap_zero(sp->slot_bitmap, KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS + KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS); sp->multimapped = 0; sp->parent_pte = parent_pte;
sp->spt is allocated using mmu_memory_cache_alloc(), which zeros the page. How can the assertion fail?
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