Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: privcmd: do not return pages which we have failed to unmap

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/12/13 16:03, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] xen: privcmd: do not return pages which we have failed to
>  unmap
> 
> This failure represents a hypervisor issue, but if it does occur then nothing
> good can come of returning pages which still refer to a foreign owned page
> into the general allocation pool.
> 
> Instead we are forced to leak them. Log that we have done so.
> 
> The potential for failure only exists for autotranslated guest (e.g. ARM and
> x86 PVH).

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>

David

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