linux-kernel-test/arch
Rusty Russell b7ff99ea53 lguest: wire up pte_update/pte_update_defer
Impact: intermittent guest segv/crash fix

I've been seeing random guest bad address crashes and segmentation faults:
bisect led to 4f98a2fee8 (vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets),
but that's a red herring.

It turns out that lguest never hooked up the pte_update/pte_update_defer
calls, so our ptes were not always in sync.  After the vmscan commit, the
bug became reproducible; now a fsck in a 64MB guest causes reproducible
pagetable corruption.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: jeremy@xensource.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-03-30 21:55:24 +10:30
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alpha Merge branch 'linus' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-28 04:26:01 +01:00
arm Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2009-03-28 14:03:14 -07:00
avr32 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6 2009-03-28 13:55:49 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-03-26 16:06:50 -07:00
frv Merge branches 'irq/genirq', 'irq/sparseirq' and 'irq/urgent' into irq/core 2009-02-13 11:57:18 +01:00
h8300 Merge branch 'header-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-03-26 16:11:41 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-03-28 13:48:38 -07:00
m32r Merge branches 'irq/genirq', 'irq/sparseirq' and 'irq/urgent' into irq/core 2009-02-13 11:57:18 +01:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2009-03-26 16:15:31 -07:00
m68knommu Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-03-26 15:23:24 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'linus' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-28 04:26:01 +01:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
parisc Merge branch 'linus' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-28 04:26:01 +01:00
powerpc Merge branch 'linus' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-28 04:26:01 +01:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-03-27 16:23:12 -07:00
sh i2c-algo-pca: Rework waiting for a free bus 2009-03-28 21:34:45 +01:00
sparc Merge branch 'linus' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-28 04:26:01 +01:00
um uml: convert network device to netdevice ops 2009-03-27 00:46:40 -07:00
x86 lguest: wire up pte_update/pte_update_defer 2009-03-30 21:55:24 +10:30
xtensa Merge branch 'header-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-03-26 16:11:41 -07:00
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