On 16.03.2010, at 17:36, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:59:52PM +0200, 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. >> >> v3: >> - rebase against next branch (resolves conflicts via hypercall patch) >> >> v2: >> - fix truncated description for patch 1 >> - add new patch 4, which fixes a bug in patch 5 > > Applied, thanks. How relevant is this for -stable? Races don't sound good to me :) Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
