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Message-ID: <5566FE32.6000300@huawei.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 May 2015 19:38:26 +0800
From:	"Ouyang Zhaowei (Charles)" <ouyangzhaowei@...wei.com>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dingweiping <weiping.ding@...wei.com>,
	Yanqiangjun <yanqiangjun@...wei.com>, <jinjian@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] xen: vcpu_info would be reset to wrong place on
 canceled suspend on PVOPS VM which has multi-cpu



On 2015.5.28 19:07, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 06/05/15 02:47, Ouyang Zhaowei (Charles) wrote:
>> vcpu_info would be reset to wrong place on canceled suspend on PVOPS VM which has multi-cpu
>>
>> The hypervisor continues assuming that vcpu_info is stored in per-cpu data which was set up by xen_vcpu_setup(),
>> while on canceled suspend, the call to xen_hvm_init_shared_info() will make the guest think that vcpu_info
>> is in the shared page. This will cause non-boot cpus keep checking a wrong vcpu_info address and can not handle
>> irqs any more after suspend canceled, for example after we do "xl save -c/restore", PVOPS VM can not be resumed
>> as the cpus can not finish their irqs.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Charles Ouyang <ouyangzhaowei@...wei.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
>> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
> 
> 1. I don't think I offered a reviewed-by tag for this patch
> 2. You did not Cc the xen-devel mailing list on this patch.
> 3. The patch is white-space damaged.
> 4. The commit message has lines longer than ~72 chars.

Sorry about that, this is my first time to send patch, and I didn't notice that it was white-space damaged.
I'll modify the patch and commit message as you applied and Cc Xen-devel mailing list.

Thanks

Ouyang Zhaowei

> 
> But I've applied this to for-linus-4.1b anyway, thanks.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> .
> 

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