On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/19/2014 12:31 PM, David Matlack wrote: >> But it looks like you basically said the same thing earlier, so I think >> we're on the same page. >> > > Yes, that is what i try to explain in previous mails. :( I'm glad we understand each other now! Sorry again for my confusion. >> The single line patch I suggested was only intended to fix the "forever >> incorrectly exit mmio". > > My patch also fixes this case and that does not doubly increase the > number. I think this is the better one. I prefer doubly increasing the generation for this reason: the updated boolean requires extra code on the "client-side" to check if there's an update in progress. And that makes it easy to get wrong. In fact, your patch forgot to check the updated bit in mark_mmio_spte(). Doubly increasing the generation requires no "client-side" code to work. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html