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lguest: wire up pte_update/pte_update_defer
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:55:23 +0000 (21:55 -0600)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:25:24 +0000 (21:55 +1030)
commitb7ff99ea53cd16de8f6166c0e98f19a7c6ca67ee
treefed5a3cf8fc8061967e60b5bbf32e81f3c742822
parent6afbdd059c27330eccbd85943354f94c2b83a7fe
lguest: wire up pte_update/pte_update_defer

Impact: intermittent guest segv/crash fix

I've been seeing random guest bad address crashes and segmentation faults:
bisect led to 4f98a2fee8 (vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets),
but that's a red herring.

It turns out that lguest never hooked up the pte_update/pte_update_defer
calls, so our ptes were not always in sync.  After the vmscan commit, the
bug became reproducible; now a fsck in a 64MB guest causes reproducible
pagetable corruption.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: jeremy@xensource.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c