Comment 6 for bug 1538049

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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote :

Hint from upstream. Sounds plausible that this might be the upstream fix:

9c17d96500f78 "xen/gntdev: Grant maps should not be subject to NUMA balancing"

I guess 4.3 started to be more aggressive there since I never saw this before 4.3 and there even on a non-NUMA system. But having a grant-table mapping taken away from the dom0 kernel without xenstored being involved would explain it tripping over that now bad pointer.