[Bug 54061] guest panic after live migration

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54061





--- Comment #3 from Anonymous Emailer <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  2013-02-25 08:26:26 ---
Reply-To: xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On 02/20/2013 04:06 PM, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54061
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> --- Comment #2 from Jay Ren <yongjie.ren@xxxxxxxxx>  2013-02-20 08:06:16 ---
> Marcleo,
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> yes, after reverting that commit "caf6900f2d8", live-migration can work fine.
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Sorry for the wrong patch and the bug is: the fast page fault path
can make large-spte writeable without probably set dirty bitmap for
all small pages.

Two ways to fix these:
1): covert the large-spte to small sptes and wirte-protect them, then
    no readonly large-spte exists.

2): only allow fast page fault to fix #PF on small spte.

Seems the first way is better because the second way can cause useless
page table waking.

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