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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: "Maydell, Peter" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Pavel Dovgalyuk <dovgaluk@ispras.ru>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 15/36] memory: fix race between TCG and accesses to dirty bitmap
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:16:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABgObfaznqy28SWGGjRsPhEOEnFD4JLinRoZMxy48DajSRKL3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae45ff2c-70d2-da6d-5f65-2d842f060af0@linaro.org>

Il gio 12 set 2019, 19:43 Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
ha scritto:

> >>> Fortunately, in order to fix it, no change is required to the
> >>> vCPU thread.  However, the reader thread must delay the read after
> >>> the vCPU thread has finished the write.  This can be approximated
> >>> conservatively by run_on_cpu, which waits for the end of the current
> >>> translation block.
>
> If we are going to delay any read of the dirty flags until vCPU has
> completed
> any active TranslationBlock, then we can simplify the TCG operation so
> that we
> do not (ab)use the mmio path, and can promote this into the tlb slow path
> as we
> have recently done with watchpoints.


Uh, that's true and I agree it would be great. Die notdirty_mem_ops die...

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-12 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-20  6:59 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/36] QEMU patches for 2018-08-20 Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 01/36] kvm: i386: halt poll control MSR support Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 02/36] target-i386: adds PV_SCHED_YIELD CPUID feature bit Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 03/36] loader: Handle memory-mapped ELFs Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 04/36] elf-ops.h: Map into memory the ELF to load Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 05/36] hw/i386/pc: Map into memory the initrd Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 06/36] memory: assert on out of scope notification Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 07/36] configure: Define target access alignment in configure Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 08/36] block: fix NetBSD qemu-iotests failure Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 09/36] 9p: simplify source file selection Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-03 20:31   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-03 20:31     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 10/36] target-i386: kvm: 'kvm_get_supported_msrs' cleanup Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 11/36] test-throttle: Fix uninitialized use of burst_length Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 12/36] tests: Fix uninitialized byte in test_visitor_in_fuzz Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 13/36] i386/kvm: initialize struct at full before ioctl call Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 14/36] target/i386: Return 'indefinite integer value' for invalid SSE fp->int conversions Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 15/36] memory: fix race between TCG and accesses to dirty bitmap Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-26 12:19   ` dovgaluk
2019-09-12  6:54     ` Pavel Dovgalyuk
2019-09-12 17:43       ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-12 22:16         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-09-12 12:45     ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-08-02 16:17   ` Peter Maydell
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 16/36] mc146818rtc: Remove reset notifiers Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 17/36] timer: " Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 18/36] replay: Remove host_clock_last Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 19/36] timer: last, remove last bits of last Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 20/36] kconfig: do not select VMMOUSE Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 21/36] replay: add missing fix for internal function Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 22/36] replay: document development rules Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 23/36] util/qemu-timer: refactor deadline calculation for external timers Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 24/36] replay: fix replay shutdown Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 25/36] replay: refine replay-time module Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 26/36] replay: rename step-related variables and functions Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 27/36] icount: clean up cpu_can_io at the entry to the block Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 28/36] icount: remove unnecessary gen_io_end calls Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 29/36] cpus-common: nuke finish_safe_work Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 30/36] cpus-common: assert BQL nesting within cpu-exclusive sections Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 31/36] kvm: vmxcap: Enhance with latest features Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 32/36] HACKING: Document 'struct' keyword usage Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 33/36] migration: do not rom_reset() during incoming migration Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 34/36] test-bitmap: test set 1 bit case for bitmap_set Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 35/36] scsi: lsi: exit infinite loop while executing script (CVE-2019-12068) Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  6:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 36/36] x86: Intel AVX512_BF16 feature enabling Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-20  7:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/36] QEMU patches for 2018-08-20 no-reply
2019-08-20  9:26 ` Peter Maydell
2019-08-20 23:42 ` no-reply

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