Re: kernel panic in skb_copy_bits
From: Alex Bligh <hidden>
Date: 2013-07-01 08:29:18
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Joe,
Do you know if have a fix for above? so far we also suspected the grant page be unmapped earlier, we using 4.1 stable during our test.
A true fix? No, but I posted a patch set (see later email message for a link) that you could forward port. The workaround is:
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A workaround is to turn off O_DIRECT use by Xen as that ensures the pages are copied. Xen 4.3 does this by default. I believe fixes for this are in 4.3 and 4.2.2 if using the qemu upstream DM. Note these aren't real fixes, just a workaround of a kernel bug.The guest is pvm, and disk model is xvbd, guest config file as below:
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I think this only for pvhvm/hvm?
I don't have much experience outside pvhvm/hvm, but I believe it should work for any device. Testing was simple - just find all (*) the references to O_DIRECT in your device model and remove them! (*)=you could be less lazy than me and find the right ones. I am guessing it will be the same ones though. -- Alex Bligh