Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > guest fault enable dirty logging > > tdp_page_fault (all _page_fault functions) kvm_set_memory_region > > > level = mapping_level(vcpu, gfn) > (finds level == 2 or 3) > > > rcu_assign_pointer(slot > with > ->dirty_bitmap) > synchronize_srcu_expedited() Isn't here still in the SRCU read-side critical section? > schedule() > kvm_arch_commit_memory_region() > spin_lock(mmu_lock) > kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access() > removes large sptes > spin_unlock(mmu_lock) > spin_lock(mmu_lock) > create large spte accordingly > to level above > spin_unlock(mmu_lock) > If so, we cannot start kvm_arch_commit_memory_region() until the completion of the SRCU critical section and this race will not happen. Takuya -- 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