[PATCH] xen: do not reserve 2 pages of padding between hypervisor and fixmap.

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Fri Oct 10 2008 - 06:27:57 EST


When reserving space for the hypervisor the Xen paravirt backend adds
an extra two pages (this was carried forward from the 2.6.18-xen tree
which had them "for safety"). Depending on various CONFIG options this
can cause the boot time fixmaps to span multiple PMDs which is not
supported and triggers a WARN in early_ioremap_init().

This was exposed by 2216d199b1430d1c0affb1498a9ebdbd9c0de439 which
moved the dmi table parsing earlier.
x86: fix CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=y

The bad_bios_dmi_table() quirk never triggered because we do DMI setup
too late. Move it a bit earlier.

There is no real reason to reserve these two extra pages and the
fixmap already incorporates FIX_HOLE which serves the same
purpose. None of the other callers of reserve_top_address do this.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index bd6b50a..e8df41a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1401,7 +1401,7 @@ static void __init xen_reserve_top(void)
if (HYPERVISOR_xen_version(XENVER_platform_parameters, &pp) == 0)
top = pp.virt_start;

- reserve_top_address(-top + 2 * PAGE_SIZE);
+ reserve_top_address(-top);
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
}

--
1.5.6.3

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