[vbox-dev] [RESOLVED] vbox bug causing Windows system cache problems?

[Huihong Luo]

r36201 caused this issue, kind of weird.
 
VMMDev.cpp
 
this condition: 
 
&& requestHeader.requestType != VMMDevReq_GetHostVersion
 
After I removed this condition from latest svn code, the cache error no longer displays.
 
Is there any special call to make from guest addition to ensure the above condition? 

--- On Thu, 9/29/11, Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] vbox bug causing Windows system cache problems?
To: "Vitali Pelenjow" <Vitali.Pelenjow at oracle.com>
Cc: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011, 8:32 AM







Vitali,
 
No problem, I've been doing that. Now narrowed down to r36210 - r36190, where r36210 has the bug, but r36190 works.
 
I will go further. Most likely a bug in vmm.
 
- huihong

--- On Thu, 9/29/11, Vitali Pelenjow <Vitali.Pelenjow at oracle.com> wrote:


From: Vitali Pelenjow <Vitali.Pelenjow at oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] vbox bug causing Windows system cache problems?
To: "Huihong Luo" <huisinro at yahoo.com>
Cc: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011, 1:58 AM


Hi Huihong,

we would appreciate, if you could narrow down the changeset, which 
introduced the regression.
This would be a great help. The changeset range is still too wide to 
have a guess.

Thanks,
Vitali.


Huihong Luo wrote:
> After last few days' buiding different OSE revisions, the bug exists 
> between
> r36100 - r36222 (Feb 28, 11 - Mar-09, 11)
> if you have some wild guess on which code change may have caused that, 
> let me know, to save some time.
> Otherwise I will continue the brutal force way of narrowing down the 
> code set that caused the bug.
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 9/27/11, Huihong Luo /<huisinro at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com>
>     Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] vbox bug causing Windows system cache
>     problems?
>     To: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
>     Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 12:33 PM
>
>     After some backing tracing, this error occurs from vbox 4.1.0
>     r73009, and works well with 4.0.12 and before.
>     The windows cache manager displays an error message as attached
>     from our driver.
>     We run exactly the same guest (same disk, same configure) using
>     different versions of vbox downloaded from virtualbox.org.
>     so very likely there is a bug in vbox between 4.0.12 and 4.1.0
>
>     --- On *Mon, 9/26/11, Huihong Luo /<huisinro at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>         From: Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com>
>         Subject: [vbox-dev] vbox bug causing Windows system cache
>         problems?
>         To: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
>         Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:47 PM
>
>         After one week of debugging, there might be a bug in vbox that
>         causes Windows MmFlushSection() to behave weirdly.
>         We have a Windows driver working very well on old versions of
>         vbox, but not on v4. The problem was caused by MmFlushSection,
>         which wrongly updates files that are opened for read. In other
>         words, MmFlushSection() causes files to write even if they are
>         opened for read, and thus get ACCESS denined error.
>         It seems somehow the page dirty bit is not set correctly in
>         some case, because MmFlushSection checks dirty pages.
>         I first thought there might be some bugs in our driver's code,
>         but strange thing is that it works fine before with old
>         versions of vbox, so I post this message just in case
>         something wrong with vbox code.
>
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