Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] Ensure liveness of pages involved in a guest page table walk

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:41 -0500 on 24 Nov (1322124092), Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> Instead of risking deadlock by holding onto the gfn's acquired during
> a guest page table walk, acquire an extra reference within the get_gfn/
> put_gfn critical section, and drop the extra reference when done with
> the map. This ensures liveness of the map, i.e. the underlying page
> won't be paged out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

Tim.

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