x86: xen, i386: reserve Xen pagetables
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Thu, 7 May 2009 18:56:44 +0000 (11:56 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 8 May 2009 08:49:11 +0000 (10:49 +0200)
The Xen pagetables are no longer implicitly reserved as part of the other
i386_start_kernel reservations, so make sure we explicitly reserve them.
This prevents them from being released into the general kernel free page
pool and reused.

[ Impact: fix Xen guest crash ]

Also-Bisected-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A032EEC.30509@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c

index 9842b12124078f9795413a31e784dd96a1fc28a0..e25a78e1113a11f8b2c057508697d48b3d99b2af 100644 (file)
@@ -1794,6 +1794,11 @@ __init pgd_t *xen_setup_kernel_pagetable(pgd_t *pgd,
 
        pin_pagetable_pfn(MMUEXT_PIN_L3_TABLE, PFN_DOWN(__pa(swapper_pg_dir)));
 
+       reserve_early(__pa(xen_start_info->pt_base),
+                     __pa(xen_start_info->pt_base +
+                          xen_start_info->nr_pt_frames * PAGE_SIZE),
+                     "XEN PAGETABLES");
+
        return swapper_pg_dir;
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */