x86, mm: Add pointer about Xen mmu requirement for alloc_low_pages
authorStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:39:05 +0000 (19:39 -0800)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:59:28 +0000 (11:59 -0800)
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279b706 x86,xen: introduce x86_init.mapping.pagetable_reserve

-v2: updated to commets from hpa to include commit name.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1353123563-3103-29-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
arch/x86/mm/init.c

index 02cea14c6d0c14dbfff24fa328eb0d24eedbf908..cb4f8ba70eccba475e67e9de9fd0dbc75fef593c 100644 (file)
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ unsigned long __meminitdata pgt_buf_top;
 
 static unsigned long min_pfn_mapped;
 
+/*
+ * Pages returned are already directly mapped.
+ *
+ * Changing that is likely to break Xen, see commit:
+ *
+ *    279b706 x86,xen: introduce x86_init.mapping.pagetable_reserve
+ *
+ * for detailed information.
+ */
 __ref void *alloc_low_pages(unsigned int num)
 {
        unsigned long pfn;