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[Xen-devel] About the page lock while updating mmu.

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] About the page lock while updating mmu.
From: "Xu, Dongxiao" <dongxiao.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:58:23 +0800
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Thread-topic: About the page lock while updating mmu.
Hi, Keir and Jan,
 
    In C/S 17846, page lock is used instead of the per-domain lock. It
uses the spin lock in page_info structure to ensure the unique access
into the page. But while updating mmu (l1_entry, l2_entry, l3_entry,
l4_entry), I think these pages should be described by shadow_page_info,
but not page_info. However there is no spin lock defined in
shadow_page_info structure. 

    This may be the root cause for Xen bug 1278:
(On 32E, XenU guest can not boot up after destorying a HVM guest.
http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1278)

Best Regards,
-- Dongxiao


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