Re: [Xen-devel] Re: A race condition in xenlinux exit_mmap

[Ben Thomas <bthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree.  This is why we never submitted it, and I
wanted you to understand that it was a "data point"
and not an answer.

regards,
-b

hanzhu wrote:
> This patch just fail the sanity check. It should fix the bug. However, 
> it didn't fix the root cause.
> I'm afraid Keir will not allow to add another VM_XXX flag.
>
> _______________________________________________________
> Best Regards,
> hanzhu
>
>
>
> Ben Thomas дµÀ:
>
> > Xin,
> >
> > I'm attaching a patch that we've been using since late May/early June to
> > address an "Eeek" issues. Since we applied the patch, we haven't seen the
> > issue.  As this was some time ago, I cannot recall if this is the same
> > problem that you're seeing now. The patch wasn't submitted, as it isn't
> > particularly clean. It's one of the many "some day soon" patches that we
> > need to get resubmitted after a bit more work. I attach it here, not 
> > because
> > I believe that it is "the answer", but as a data point for you.
> >
> > -b
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> >       * NOTE! We still have PageReserved() pages in the page   
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