Commit 9d3c92af authored Jul 17, 2012 by Xiao Guangrong Committed by Marcelo Tosatti Jul 19, 2012

KVM: x86: remove unnecessary mark_page_dirty



fix:
[  132.474633] 3.5.0-rc1+ #50 Not tainted
[  132.474634] -------------------------------
[  132.474635] include/linux/kvm_host.h:369 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[  132.474636]
[  132.474636] other info that might help us debug this:
[  132.474636]
[  132.474638]
[  132.474638] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[  132.474640] 1 lock held by qemu-kvm/2832:
[  132.474657]  #0:  (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa01e1636>] vcpu_load+0x1e/0x91 [kvm]
[  132.474658]
[  132.474658] stack backtrace:
[  132.474660] Pid: 2832, comm: qemu-kvm Not tainted 3.5.0-rc1+ #50
[  132.474661] Call Trace:
[  132.474665]  [<ffffffff81092f40>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xfc/0x105
[  132.474675]  [<ffffffffa01e0c85>] kvm_memslots+0x6d/0x75 [kvm]
[  132.474683]  [<ffffffffa01e0ca1>] gfn_to_memslot+0x14/0x4c [kvm]
[  132.474693]  [<ffffffffa01e3575>] mark_page_dirty+0x17/0x2a [kvm]
[  132.474706]  [<ffffffffa01f21ea>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0xbcf/0xc07 [kvm]

Actually, we do not write vcpu->arch.time at this time, mark_page_dirty
should be removed.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

parent bcd3ef58

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

+0 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2632,7 +2632,6 @@ static int kvm_set_guest_paused(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
		if (!vcpu->arch.time_page)
		return -EINVAL;
		src->flags \|= PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED;
		mark_page_dirty(vcpu->kvm, vcpu->arch.time >> PAGE_SHIFT);
		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_CLOCK_UPDATE, vcpu);
		return 0;
		}

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