1. Jul 08, 2008
  2. Jul 07, 2008
  3. Jul 06, 2008
    • Mark McLoughlin's avatar
      KVM: IOAPIC: Fix level-triggered irq injection hang · 35baff25
      Mark McLoughlin authored
      
      
      The "remote_irr" variable is used to indicate an interrupt
      which has been received by the LAPIC, but not acked.
      
      In our EOI handler, we unset remote_irr and re-inject the
      interrupt if the interrupt line is still asserted.
      
      However, we do not set remote_irr here, leading to a
      situation where if kvm_ioapic_set_irq() is called, then we go
      ahead and call ioapic_service(). This means that IRR is
      re-asserted even though the interrupt is currently in service
      (i.e. LAPIC IRR is cleared and ISR/TMR set)
      
      The issue with this is that when the currently executing
      interrupt handler finishes and writes LAPIC EOI, then TMR is
      unset and EOI sent to the IOAPIC. Since IRR is now asserted,
      but TMR is not, then when the second interrupt is handled,
      no EOI is sent and if there is any pending interrupt, it is
      not re-injected.
      
      This fixes a hang only seen while running mke2fs -j on an
      8Gb virtio disk backed by a fully sparse raw file, with
      aliguori "avoid fragmented virtio-blk transfers by copying"
      changes.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
      35baff25
    • Anthony Liguori's avatar
      x86: KVM guest: Add memory clobber to hypercalls · ca373932
      Anthony Liguori authored
      
      
      Hypercalls can modify arbitrary regions of memory.  Make sure to indicate this
      in the clobber list.  This fixes a hang when using KVM_GUEST kernel built with
      GCC 4.3.0.
      
      This was originally spotted and analyzed by Marcelo.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
      ca373932
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 2.6.26-rc9 · b7279469
      Linus Torvalds authored
      b7279469
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      Fix pagemap_read() use of struct mm_walk · 5d7e0d2b
      Andrew Morton authored
      
      
      Fix some issues in pagemap_read noted by Alexey:
      
      - initialize pagemap_walk.mm to "mm" , so the code starts working as
        advertised
      
      - initialize ->private to "&pm" so it wouldn't immediately oops in
        pagemap_pte_hole()
      
      - unstatic struct pagemap_walk, so two threads won't fsckup each other
        (including those started by root, including flipping ->mm when you don't
        have permissions)
      
      - pagemap_read() contains two calls to ptrace_may_attach(), second one
        looks unneeded.
      
      - avoid possible kmalloc(0) and integer wraparound.
      
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      [ Personally, I'd just remove the functionality entirely  - Linus ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5d7e0d2b