On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:59:35PM +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote:
> There seems no issue, because vcpu_purge_tr_entry() only sets ->p=0.
> In some cases, this patch may cause a not-present tlb inserted into machine
> TLB, this is harmless, when guest accesses this page, page not present fault
> happens, and guest kernel will purge this tlb and insert a new one, there
> are
> a little performance penalty.
> Sine you will send IPI to flush vhpt later, why not purge this tlb as well as
> flush vhpt.
Page not present fault is different from tlb miss fault.
So guest OS may handle them differently.
For example, suppose guest OS is Linux and a area covered by dtlb
is from PAGE_OFFSET + 64MB. In this case Linux results in kernel panic.
ENTRY(page_not_present)
-> page_fault()
-> ia64_do_page_fault()
Here Linux searches vm area but fails.
then Linux tries exception table and fails.
then panics.
It's very harmful.
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yamahata
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