On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Avi Kivity <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/23/2010 02:11 PM, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Avi Kivity<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/23/2010 01:22 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I see a lot of soft lockups with this patchset:
>>>
>>> This is running the emulator.flat test case, with shadow paging. This
>>> test
>>> triggers a lot (millions) of mmu mode switches.
>>>
>> Does following patch fix your issue?
>>
>
> It does indeed!
Thanks Xiaotian Feng!
Avi: here's also a minor whitespace fixup on top of the previous.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index f83b941..0c56484 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1696,8 +1696,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm,
unsigned in
page = container_of(kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages.prev,
struct kvm_mmu_page, link);
- kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, page,
- &invalid_list);
+ kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, page, &invalid_list);
kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(kvm, &invalid_list);
}
goal_nr_mmu_pages = kvm->arch.n_used_mmu_pages;
Tim
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