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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] use realmode code to reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:41:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204630906.16613.4.camel@muff> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204240609.28798.33.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk>
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 23:16 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 13:14 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > You need to set up your memory map more sensibly; it's not just the
> > kernel, user space tries to access these areas too.
>
> Agreed, I think it's pure luck that Xen kernels have gotten away with it
> in the past.
>
> The patch below seems like the right thing to do. It certainly boots in
> a domU without the DMI problem (without any of the other related patches
> such as Alexander's).
Yep, this patch on its own fixes 2.6.25-rc3 DomU boot for me here.
> x86/xen: Construct e820 map with a hole between 640K-1M.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 3 ++-
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> index 3bad477..2341492 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void)
> unsigned long max_pfn = xen_start_info->nr_pages;
>
> e820.nr_map = 0;
> - add_memory_region(0, PFN_PHYS(max_pfn), E820_RAM);
> + add_memory_region(0, LOWMEMSIZE(), E820_RAM);
> + add_memory_region(HIGH_MEMORY, PFN_PHYS(max_pfn)-HIGH_MEMORY, E820_RAM);
Seems to me to be the right thing to do ...
Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cheers,
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-04 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-24 17:46 [PATCH] Fix alignment of early reservation for EBDA Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-24 19:27 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-24 19:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-24 20:53 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-25 2:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-25 16:54 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-25 17:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-25 18:07 ` [PATCH] reserve_early end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-25 18:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-25 19:46 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-25 21:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-26 9:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-27 14:26 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-27 14:38 ` [PATCH] reserve_early end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB II - some numbers to put it into perspective Andi Kleen
2008-02-27 16:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-27 20:01 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-28 13:13 ` [PATCH] reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB on 32-bit Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-28 13:28 ` [RFC] use realmode code to reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-28 21:12 ` Ian Campbell
2008-02-28 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-28 23:16 ` Ian Campbell
2008-02-29 20:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 11:41 ` Mark McLoughlin [this message]
2008-03-04 14:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 15:12 ` Ian Campbell
2008-03-04 15:13 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-04 15:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 16:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-04 16:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 16:15 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-03-04 16:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 17:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-05 15:59 ` Eduardo Habkost
2008-03-05 16:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05 16:53 ` Eduardo Habkost
2008-03-05 17:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05 17:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-05 17:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05 16:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-05 17:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-28 21:09 ` [PATCH] reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB on 32-bit Ian Campbell
2008-02-29 11:49 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-29 17:14 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-02-29 18:38 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-29 18:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-29 18:56 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-29 22:06 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-02-29 22:26 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-03-01 16:09 ` [PATCH] reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB on 32-bit v2 Alexander van Heukelum
2008-03-01 16:12 ` [PATCH] reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB on 64-bit add-on Alexander van Heukelum
2008-03-04 11:44 ` [PATCH] reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB on 32-bit v2 Mark McLoughlin
2008-03-04 13:31 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-03-04 14:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 15:16 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-03-04 15:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 15:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-04 16:51 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-03-04 17:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-04 17:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-04 18:57 ` [PATCH] reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB, 32-bit, use paravirt_enabled Alexander van Heukelum
2008-03-04 19:12 ` [PATCH] reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB, 64-bit, " Alexander van Heukelum
2008-02-27 14:25 ` [PATCH] Fix alignment of early reservation for EBDA Andi Kleen
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