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[1/9] KVM: x86: remvoe unnecessary mark_page_dirty

Message ID 50056DB8.7080702@linux.vnet.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Xiao Guangrong July 17, 2012, 1:50 p.m. UTC
fix:
[  132.474633] 3.5.0-rc1+ #50 Not tainted
[  132.474634] -------------------------------
[  132.474635] include/linux/kvm_host.h:369 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[  132.474636]
[  132.474636] other info that might help us debug this:
[  132.474636]
[  132.474638]
[  132.474638] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[  132.474640] 1 lock held by qemu-kvm/2832:
[  132.474657]  #0:  (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa01e1636>] vcpu_load+0x1e/0x91 [kvm]
[  132.474658]
[  132.474658] stack backtrace:
[  132.474660] Pid: 2832, comm: qemu-kvm Not tainted 3.5.0-rc1+ #50
[  132.474661] Call Trace:
[  132.474665]  [<ffffffff81092f40>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xfc/0x105
[  132.474675]  [<ffffffffa01e0c85>] kvm_memslots+0x6d/0x75 [kvm]
[  132.474683]  [<ffffffffa01e0ca1>] gfn_to_memslot+0x14/0x4c [kvm]
[  132.474693]  [<ffffffffa01e3575>] mark_page_dirty+0x17/0x2a [kvm]
[  132.474706]  [<ffffffffa01f21ea>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0xbcf/0xc07 [kvm]

Actually, we do not write vcpu->arch.time at this time, mark_page_dirty should
be removed

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

Marcelo Tosatti July 20, 2012, 12:40 a.m. UTC | #1
Applied all patches except 2, 3 and 5, thanks.

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Patch

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index ff0b487..875b8d8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2615,7 +2615,6 @@  static int kvm_set_guest_paused(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (!vcpu->arch.time_page)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	src->flags |= PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED;
-	mark_page_dirty(vcpu->kvm, vcpu->arch.time >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_CLOCK_UPDATE, vcpu);
 	return 0;
 }