Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Found this looping Ubuntu installs with VMI.
>
> If unlucky enough to hit a vmalloc sync fault during a lazy mode
> operation (from an IRQ handler for a module which was not yet
> populated in current page directory, or from inside copy_one_pte,
> which touches swap_map, and hit in an unused 4M region), the required
> PDE update would never get flushed, causing an infinite page fault loop.
Ah, good catch.
> This bug affects any paravirt-ops backend which uses lazy updates, I
> believe that makes it a bug in Xen, VMI and lguest. It only happens
> on LOWMEM kernels.
No, under Xen the kernel/hypervisor PMD is not shared between processes,
so this is still used when PAE is enabled.
J
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