Re: [PATCH v5 07/14] KVM: ARM: World-switch implementation

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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:17:06AM -0500, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:42:02AM -0500, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> >
> >> >> read side RCU protects against is the memslots data structure as far
> >> >> as I can see, so the second patch pasted below fixes this for the code
> >> >> that actually accesses this data structure.
> >> > Many memory related functions that you call access memslots under the
> >> > hood and assume that locking is done by the caller. From the quick look
> >> > I found those that you've missed:
> >> > kvm_is_visible_gfn()
> >> > kvm_read_guest()
> >> > gfn_to_hva()
> >> > gfn_to_pfn_prot()
> >> > kvm_memslots()
> >> >
> >> > May be there are more. Can you enable RCU debugging in your kernel config
> >> > and check? This does not guaranty that it will catch all of the places,
> >> > but better than nothing.
> >> >
> >>
> >> yeah, I missed the call to is_visible_gfn and friends, this fixes it:
> >>
> > Thank you. One more kvm_read_guest() in emulate.c.
> >
> 
> this one is going out for now (see the i/o discussion).
> 
I thought there wasn't resolution yet. Guess I missed something. If
kvm_read_guest() is removed from emulator then the patch looks good to me.

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			Gleb.
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