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From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger@xen.org>
To: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
	"paul@xen.org" <paul@xen.org>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Xia, Hongyan" <hongyxia@amazon.com>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@arm.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
	Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] xen: Use a global mapping for runstate
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 16:36:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200529143613.GP1195@Air-de-Roger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7a757b4-b285-7089-91ea-d4248443aaf1@xen.org>

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 02:37:24PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 29/05/2020 14:26, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > TBH I would just remove the error message on Arm from the current
> > hypercall, I don't think it's useful.
> The message is part of the helpers get_page_from_gva() which is also used by
> copy_{to, from}_guest. While it may not be useful in the context of the
> runstate, it was introduced because there was some other weird bug happening
> before KPTI even existed (see [1]). I haven't yet managed to find the bottom
> line of the issue.
> 
> So I would still very much like to keep the message in place. Although we
> could reduce the number of cases where this is hapenning based on the fault.

Ack, I someone hove wrongly assumed the message was explicitly about
the runstate area, not a generic one in the helpers.

Roger.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-29 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-28 15:25 [RFC PATCH 0/1] Runstate error with KPTI Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-28 15:25 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] xen: Use a global mapping for runstate Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-28 16:53   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-05-28 17:19     ` Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-28 19:12       ` Julien Grall
2020-05-29  8:15         ` Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-28 18:54   ` Julien Grall
2020-05-29  7:19     ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-05-29  8:24       ` Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-29  7:35     ` Jan Beulich
2020-05-29  8:32       ` Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-29  8:37         ` Jan Beulich
2020-05-29 13:26         ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-05-29 13:37           ` Julien Grall
2020-05-29 14:36             ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2020-05-29 10:59       ` Julien Grall
2020-05-29 13:09         ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-05-29  8:13     ` Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-29  8:45       ` Jan Beulich
2020-05-29  9:18         ` Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-29  9:27           ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-05-29 13:53             ` Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-29  9:31           ` Jan Beulich
2020-05-29 10:52           ` Julien Grall
2020-05-29  9:43       ` Julien Grall
2020-05-29 14:02         ` Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-29 14:15           ` Julien Grall
2020-05-29 14:21             ` Bertrand Marquis
2020-05-29  9:49       ` Hongyan Xia

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