[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] Re: Interaction between Xen and XFS: stray RW mappings
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > I guess we could create a special-case interface to do the same thing > with XFS mappings, but it would be nicer to have something more generic. > > Is my analysis correct? Or should XFS not be holding stray mappings? > Or is there already some kind of generic mechanism I can use to get it > to release its mappings? This test patch confirms my theory: diff -r 36a518c1fb4b fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c Fri Oct 12 10:03:56 2007 -0700 +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c Fri Oct 12 10:07:03 2007 -0700 @@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ free_address( void *addr) { a_list_t *aentry; + +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN + vunmap(addr); + return; +#endif aentry = kmalloc(sizeof(a_list_t), GFP_NOWAIT); if (likely(aentry)) { With this in place, the problem goes away. J _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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