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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:52:52 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/9] KVM: MMU: track the refcount when unmap the page

It will trigger a WARN_ON if the page has been freed but it is still
used in mmu, it can help us to detect mm bug early

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 28c8fbc..28b12e2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -556,6 +556,14 @@ static int mmu_spte_clear_track_bits(u64 *sptep)
 		return 0;

 	pfn = spte_to_pfn(old_spte);
+
+	/*
+	 * KVM does not hold the refcount of the page used by
+	 * kvm mmu, before reclaiming the page, we should
+	 * unmap it from mmu first.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON(!kvm_is_mmio_pfn(pfn) && !page_count(pfn_to_page(pfn)));
+
 	if (!shadow_accessed_mask || old_spte & shadow_accessed_mask)
 		kvm_set_pfn_accessed(pfn);
 	if (!shadow_dirty_mask || (old_spte & shadow_dirty_mask))
-- 
1.7.7.6

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