On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 17:18 +0800, Dong, Eddie wrote:

> 
> I may miss something, why does that matter?

As it turns out, it doesn't ;)  So we have dropped the patch.  But not
for the reason you are suggesting.


>  __vcpu_clear will eventually
> get executed though it is a little bit delayed. vmclear will eventually
> dump 
> internal state of VM-a VMCS to memory and VM-b get its own VMCS 
> loaded.  Here the point is vmclear has a parameter to identify which
> VM's VMCS to dump, not only a memory address. Jun, please correct me if
> I am wrong.

The race is against per_cpu(current_vmcs), not the actual VMCS.
However, Avi pointed out that the race is benign so the race doesn't
matter.


-Greg


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