Re: BSOD with [PATCH 00/13] mmu_notifier kill invalidate_page callback

From: Radim KrÄmÃÅ
Date: Thu Nov 30 2017 - 11:19:48 EST


2017-11-30 12:20+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 30/11/2017 10:33, Fabian GrÃnbichler wrote:
> >
> > It was reverted in 785373b4c38719f4af6775845df6be1dfaea120f after which
> > the symptoms disappeared until this series was merged, which contains
> >
> > 369ea8242c0fb5239b4ddf0dc568f694bd244de4 mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2
> >
> > We haven't bisected the individual commits of the series yet, but the
> > commit immediately preceding its merge exhibits no problems, while
> > everything after does. It is not known whether the bug is actually in
> > the series itself, or whether increasing the likelihood of triggering it
> > is just a side-effect. There is a similar report[2] concerning an
> > upgrade from 4.12.12 to 4.12.13, which does not contain this series in
> > any form AFAICT but might be worth another look as well.
>
> I know of one issue in this series (invalidate_page was removed from KVM
> without reimplementing it as invalidate_range). I'll try to prioritize
> the fix, but I don't think I can do it before Monday.

The series also dropped the reloading of the APIC access page and we
never had it in invalidate_range_start ... I'll look into it today.