* David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 15/06/15 10:05, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 11:49 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> xen_mm_pin_all()/unpin_all() are used to implement full guest instance
> >> suspend/restore. It's a stop-all method that needs to iterate through all
> >> allocated pgds in the system to fix them up for Xen's use.
> >>
> >> This code uses pgd_list, probably because it was an easy interface.
> >>
> >> But we want to remove the pgd_list, so convert the code over to walk all
> >> tasks in the system. This is an equivalent method.
>
> It is not equivalent because pgd_alloc() now populates entries in pgds that
> are
> not visible to xen_mm_pin_all() (note how the original code adds the pgd to
> the
> pgd_list in pgd_ctor() before calling pgd_prepopulate_pmd()). These newly
> allocated page tables won't be correctly converted on suspend/resume and the
> new
> process will die after resume.
So how should the Xen logic be fixed for the new scheme? I can't say I can see
through the paravirt complexity here.
Thanks,
Ingo
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