[Xen-devel] Re: Memory sharing, is it possible a page is freed in DomU on its way to be shared?

[Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:26 +0100 on 19 Apr (1303223214), MaoXiaoyun wrote:
>    Hi:
> 
>          Just come up this question.
> 
>          Say a process in domU read IO, then blkfront driver will have a
>    new page prepared to
>    fill the IO data. The blkfront pass the gref to blkback in dom0, later
>    passed  to blktap, then
>    forward to  tapdisk for physical IO read, in memory sharing, the
>    gref may be nominate to
>    Xen for page sharing again( say this is sharing step).
> 
>          My question is, it is possible during the IO data comes back from
>    tapdisk, the page
>    referred by gerf in domU could be freed? (maybe by process termination,
>    or blkfront free this page)
> 
>         And if it is possible, then the page is free in domU, it is also
>    possible that the page be given
>    back to Xen through ballloon driver, and the P2M will be invaild.  This
>    may make *sharing step*
>    gfn points to a invalid mfn possible.
> 
>         So is this possible happen?

It shouldn't be.  The reference counting of pages means that if the mem
sharing code has taken a reference to the page it can't be freed until
it gives it up again.   Do you think you've seen this happening?

Tim.

-- 
Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

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