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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2008-06-26 12:02:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-08 13:16:02 +0200 |
| commit | 22b45144f67dbaf0705992dc1462de2813fb83a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 6894ead3ec10e0d9ae7828237283419508fe3840 | |
| parent | 457da70ec09ca78e8fda5d5ab3659248f844a376 (diff) | |
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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: Jeremy 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index 5c3305e0507..b10b7f17ea5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -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; } |