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Commit 35f2d16b authored by Takuya Yoshikawa's avatar Takuya Yoshikawa Committed by Avi Kivity
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KVM: MMU: Fix mmu_shrink() so that it can free mmu pages as intended

Although the possible race described in

  commit 85b70591
  KVM: MMU: fix shrinking page from the empty mmu

was correct, the real cause of that issue was a more trivial bug of
mmu_shrink() introduced by

  commit 19526396


  KVM: MMU: do not iterate over all VMs in mmu_shrink()

Here is the bug:

	if (kvm->arch.n_used_mmu_pages > 0) {
		if (!nr_to_scan--)
			break;
		continue;
	}

We skip VMs whose n_used_mmu_pages is not zero and try to shrink others:
in other words we try to shrink empty ones by mistake.

This patch reverses the logic so that mmu_shrink() can free pages from
the first VM whose n_used_mmu_pages is not zero.  Note that we also add
comments explaining the role of nr_to_scan which is not practically
important now, hoping this will be improved in the future.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
parent e8143ccb
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