From: Stefano Stabellini Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:39:05 +0000 (-0800) Subject: x86, mm: Add pointer about Xen mmu requirement for alloc_low_pages X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ddd3509df8f8d4f1cf4784f559d702ce00dc8846;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git x86, mm: Add pointer about Xen mmu requirement for alloc_low_pages Add link for more information 279b706 x86,xen: introduce x86_init.mapping.pagetable_reserve -v2: updated to commets from hpa to include commit name. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1353123563-3103-29-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c index 02cea14c6d0c..cb4f8ba70ecc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c @@ -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;