There is a race between TCG and accesses to the dirty log:
vCPU thread reader thread
----------------------- -----------------------
TLB check -> slow path
notdirty_mem_write
write to RAM
set dirty flag
clear dirty flag
TLB check -> fast path
read memory
write to RAM
Fortunately, in order to fix it, no change is required to the
vCPU thread. However, the reader thread must delay the read after
the vCPU thread has finished the write. This can be approximated
conservatively by run_on_cpu, which waits for the end of the current
translation block.
A similar technique is used by KVM, which has to do a synchronous TLB
flush after doing a test-and-clear of the dirty-page flags.
Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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