* Avi Kivity <[email protected]> wrote:
> >fix a GFP_KERNEL allocation in atomic section bug:
> >kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vcpu() called kvm_mmu_init(), which calls
> >alloc_pages(), while holding the vcpu. The fix is to set up the MMU
> >state earlier, it does not require a loaded CPU state.
>
> Yes it does. It calls nonpaging_init_context() which calls
> vmx_set_cr3() which promptly trashes address space of the VM that
> previously ran on that vcpu (or, if there were none, logs a vmwrite
> error).
ok, i missed that. Nevertheless the problem of the nonatomic alloc
remains. I guess a kvm_mmu_init() needs to be split into
kvm_mmu_create() and kvm_mmu_setup()?
Ingo
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