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Re: [Xen-devel] Question: dom0 electrocuted by implicitly unmapped grant

To: Daniel Stodden <Daniel.Stodden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Question: dom0 electrocuted by implicitly unmapped grantrefs
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:01:42 +0000
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On 24/11/2009 19:28, "Daniel Stodden" <Daniel.Stodden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The domain struct would stay around until all pages have been released,
> right? Certainly the ld crash is due to what remains to be filed as a
> bug in ld.
> 
> But killing the host? Until then it was a resource leak and a zombie
> domain, bad enough to not let the issue go unnoticed.

Where does 'killing the host' come from? The host won't be killed. Well,
unless dom0 is the offending domain. Bad dom0. :-)

Well, I don't really care about this very much. We can replace with a
gdprintk() and not crash the domain, just as well.

 -- Keir



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