Re: [PATCH v8 1/5] mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:13:30PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 
> > I believe rcu_dereference_protected() is what I want/need here, since this code
> > is always called for pages which we hold locked (PG_locked bit).
> 
> It would only help if we locked the page while updating the mapping,
> as far as I can see we don't.
>

But we can do it. In fact, by doing it (locking the page) we can easily avoid
the nasty race balloon_isolate_page / leak_balloon, in a much simpler way, IMHO.


_______________________________________________
Virtualization mailing list
Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization


[Index of Archives]     [KVM Development]     [Libvirt Development]     [Libvirt Users]     [CentOS Virtualization]     [Netdev]     [Ethernet Bridging]     [Linux Wireless]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Linux for Hams]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Forum]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux Admin]     [Samba]

  Powered by Linux