Commit 22b45144 authored by Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar Jeremy Fitzhardinge Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86/paravirt: groundwork for 64-bit Xen support, fix #2

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> that fixed the build but now we've got a boot crash with this config:
>
>  time.c: Detected 2010.304 MHz processor.
>  spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
>  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at  0000000000000000
>  IP: [<0000000000000000>]
>  PGD 0
>  Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
>  Oops: 0010 [1] SMP
>  CPU 0
>

I don't know if this will fix this bug, but it's definitely a bugfix.
It was trashing random pages by overwriting them with pagetables...

Don't trash a large pmd's data when mapping physical memory.
This is a bugfix for "x86_64: adjust mapping of physical pagetables
to work with Xen".
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 457da70e
......@@ -320,7 +320,8 @@ phys_pmd_init(pmd_t *pmd_page, unsigned long address, unsigned long end)
}
if (pmd_val(*pmd)) {
phys_pte_update(pmd, address, end);
if (!pmd_large(*pmd))
phys_pte_update(pmd, address, end);
continue;
}
......
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