[Xen-devel] implicit grant unmap

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Subject:	[Xen-devel] implicit grant unmap
From:	"King, Steven R" <steven.r.king@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:07:59 -0800
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Hello All,
I'm contemplating ways to avoid the domain_crash() in mm.c line ~615
without requiring new OS hooks.  This crash occurs when the operating
system writes a zero to the PTE for a grant mapping without an explicit
Xen call to unmap.

In hacking around, it seems the problem is this:  When the mapping PTE
gets squashed, Xen's cleanup_writable_pagetable() has no way to find the
correct maptrack entry for the affected mapping.  Consequently, the
grant mapping is not properly cleaned-up.

Sound correct?  Are there worse problems here?

Thanks,
-steve

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