linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH UPDATE] x86: ignore spurious faults

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:15:18 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@...cam.ac.uk>,
	"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Harvey Harrison" <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	"Matt Mackall" <mpm@...enic.com>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATE] x86: ignore spurious faults

Actually, another thought: permitting (and handling) spurious faults for
kernel mappings conflicts with NMI handling, i.e. great care would be
needed to ensure the NMI path cannot touch any such mapping. So
even the present Xen/Linux Dom0 implementation may have some
(perhaps unlikely) problems here, and it would get worse if we added
e.g. a virtual watchdog NMI (something I am considering, which would
then extend the problem to DomU-s).

Jan

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