Re: Debian linux-image-2.6.32-4-xen-amd64 2.6.32-11 doesn't boot with > 4 GiB; resets immediatelly, no log messages

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

On 04/20/2010 04:18 AM, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 03:52:45PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
>> On 04/10/2010 03:13 PM, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
>>     
>>>> Normally that would be OK, because it uses:
>>>>
>>>> 	__get_user(pfn, &machine_to_phys_mapping[mfn]);
>>>>
>>>> to dereference the array.  But at this early stage, none of the kernel's
>>>> exception handlers have been set up, so this will just fault into Xen.
>>>>
>>>> It would be interesting to confirm this by building your kernel with
>>>> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y in the .config, and verify that the faulting
>>>> instruction is actually this line.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Bingo!
>>>       
>> Excellent.  Now I just need to work out how to do a proper manual limit
>> check on the mfn.  (I've always been a bit suspicious of this code,
>> because there's no guarantee that a random invalid mfn *won't* happen to
>> return the pfn we're looking for...)
>>     
> Any news already about this one?
>
>   

Keir, is there a way to test the validity of an mfn before using it to
index into the m2p array?

    J