Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Feb 21 2008 - 18:32:30 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

It seems to me that those pages are being handed out as heap pages by the early allocator. In the Xen case this is OK because there's nothing magic about them. But if real hardware doesn't reserve these pages in the E820 map, then they could end up being used as regular memory by mistake, which is an issue.


No, they couldn't.

On real hardware they'll be memory types 0 or 2, depending on whether or not they're marked reserved.

Available RAM is type 1.

-hpa
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