On 18/06/2015 16:47, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> However, with Igor's patches a memory_region_del_subregion will cause a
>> mmap(MAP_NORESERVE), which _does_ have the effect of making the hva go away.
>>
>> I guess one way to do it would be to alias the same page in two places,
>> one for use by vhost and one for use by everything else. However, the
>> kernel does not provide the means to do this kind of aliasing for
>> anonymous mmaps.
>
> Basically pages go away on munmap, so won't simple
> lock
> munmap
> mmap(MAP_NORESERVE)
> unlock
> do the trick?
Not sure I follow. Here we have this:
VCPU 1 VCPU 2 I/O
worker
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
take big QEMU lock
p = address_space_map(hva, len)
pass I/O request to worker thread
read(fd,
p, len)
release big QEMU lock
memory_region_del_subregion
mmap(MAP_NORESERVE)
read
returns EFAULT
wake up
VCPU 1
take big QEMU lock
EFAULT? What's that?
In another scenario you are less lucky: the memory accesses
between address_space_map/unmap aren't done in the kernel and
you get a plain old SIGSEGV.
This is not something that you can fix with a lock. The very
purpose of the map/unmap API is to do stuff asynchronously while
the lock is released.
Thanks,
Paolo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
