linux-kernel - Re: [kvm-devel] guest crash on 2.6.20-rc4

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Message-ID: <adairfe20pc.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:31:11 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Cc:	kvm-devel <kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] guest crash on 2.6.20-rc4

 > I've managed to reproduce a bug with similar characteristics: a write
 > fault into a present, writable kernel page.  The attached patch should
 > fix it.

Sorry for the delay in continuing this thread.  Anyway, the oops seems
to be pretty reproducible by running the makewhatis and locate db
update scripts in a loop.  I've applied your patch and kicked off a
test run;  I'll let you know if I can still get the bug to happen.

Thanks
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