Re: [stable] backport "xen: mark local pages as FOREIGN in them2p_override"

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Aug 05 2012 - 18:39:47 EST


On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 14:34 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to request a backport of the following upstream Linux
> commit to 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.6.39 and 2.6.38.
> It fixes a deadlock that happens when a Xen frontend driver connects to
> a Xen backend driver in the same domain. A detailed explanation is
> included in the commit message.
>
> A simple cherry-pick should work for all the stable versions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stefano
>
>
> commit b9e0d95c041ca2d7ad297ee37c2e9cfab67a188f
> Author: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed May 23 18:57:20 2012 +0100
>
> xen: mark local pages as FOREIGN in the m2p_override
[...]

Added to the queue for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

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