[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix pgd_lock deadlock

[Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:19:41AM +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> So Xen needs all page tables protected when pinning/unpinning and
> extended page_table_lock to cover kernel range, which it does nowhere
> else AFAICS.  But the places it extended are also taking the pgd_lock,
> so I wonder if Xen could just take the pgd_lock itself in these paths
> and we could revert page_table_lock back to cover user va only?
> Jeremy, could this work?  Untested.

If this works for Xen, I definitely prefer this.

Still there's no point to insist on _irqsave if nothing takes the
pgd_lock from irq, so my patch probably should be applied anyway or
it's confusing and there's even a comment saying pgd_dtor is called
from irq, if it's not it should be corrected. But then it becomes a
cleanup notafix.

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