Re: one question about your patch "vhost: log dirty page correctly"

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On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 4:58 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 11:37:00AM -0800, Xingyu Li wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > Sorry to disturb you. I have a question about your Linux kernel
> > patch-- 1981e4c9a97("vhost: log dirty page correctly"). I noted that the commit
> > message says that the fix tag of this patch is 6b1e6cc7855b ("vhost: new device
> > IOTLB API"). It also says that the bug occured when try to log GIOVA.However,
> > when I look at the the commit diff of the 6b1e6cc7855b, I do not find the
> > related contents to modify the vhost_log_write() or some log-related functions.
> > Can you give me some guidance on this?

So the logic is: 6b1e6cc7855b doesn't touch vhost_log_write() so the
log is wrong since vhost_log_write() is based on GPA. That's why I
wrote 1981e4c9a97 where I translated GIOVA to GPA before doing the
log.

> >
> > --
> > Yours sincerely,
> > Xingyu
>
> Pls CC mailing list on questions. I have a policy against replying
> off list.

Right.

Thanks

>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> MST
>

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