From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Zachary Amsden" <zach@vmware.com>,
"Huang Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
norman@thebacks.co.uk,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Greg KH" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"Alok Kataria" <alokkataria1@gmail.com>,
"Bruno Prémont" <"bruno .premont"@restena.lu>,
xl@xlsigned.net, dsd@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:48:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493F2009.6060300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440812091715r775d514eh3acf9add9e24184e@mail.gmail.com>
Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> VMI initialiation can relocate the fixmap, causing early_ioremap
> to malfunction if it is initialized before the relocation. The
> ioremap area is low enough in virtual address space that no actual
> collision occurs, however, because the pagetables for it were not
> allocated under VMI mode, the pagetable updates are dropped by
> the hypervisor as irrelevant, resulting in a crash on boot.
>
I have mentioned in the past that I think the very concept of relocating
the fixmap to be utterly braindead. Instead, I believe we should locate
it low in kernel space so it doesn't have to be relocated. It's
unfortunately a relatively large change.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-10 1:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-10 0:50 [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels Zachary Amsden
2008-12-10 0:44 ` Greg KH
2008-12-10 7:30 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-12-10 1:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-12-10 1:48 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-12-10 7:31 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-12-10 9:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-10 7:36 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-12-11 0:06 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-12-11 0:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-12-11 3:31 ` Greg KH
2008-12-11 22:23 ` [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27, 2.6.28 kernels Zachary Amsden
2008-12-11 21:45 ` Greg KH
2008-12-11 23:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-12 5:37 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-12-11 5:44 ` [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels Zachary Amsden
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