Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fix some mmu/emulator atomicity issues (v2)

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On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:03:47AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/10/2010 04:50 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >Currently when we emulate a locked operation into a shadowed guest page
> >table, we perform a write rather than a true atomic.  This is indicated
> >by the "emulating exchange as write" message that shows up in dmesg.
> >
> >In addition, the pte prefetch operation during invlpg suffered from a
> >race.  This was fixed by removing the operation.
> >
> >This patchset fixes both issues and reinstates pte prefetch on invlpg.
> >
> >v2:
> >    - fix truncated description for patch 1
> >    - add new patch 4, which fixes a bug in patch 5
> 
> No comments, but looks like last week's maintainer neglected to merge this.

Looks fine. Can you please regenerate against next branch? (just
pushed).

For the invlpg prefetch it would be good to confirm the original bug is
not reproducible.


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