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Re: [PATCH 00/14] target/i386: Use atomic operations for pte updates


From: Richard Henderson
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] target/i386: Use atomic operations for pte updates
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:05:39 -0700
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On 8/22/22 16:57, Richard Henderson wrote:
This patch set does two things:

(1) Remove assert(!probe) from the x86 tlb_fill

     It turns out that this is a prerequisite for
     [PATCH v6 00/21] linux-user: Fix siginfo_t contents when jumping
     to non-readable pages

     because of a new use of probe_access(..., nonfault)
     when comparing TBs that cross a page boundary.

Turns out this was a bug in the v6 patch set. We don't require nonfault probes on PROT_EXEC at all; v7 will fix this.

But it's still nice that non-faulting probes now work...


r~



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