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From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: patches@linaro.org, tim@xen.org, ian.campbell@citrix.com,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] xen: Check if the range is valid in init_domheap_pages
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:58:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CEA9440C.64E5F%keir.xen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384349870-4256-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@linaro.org>

On 13/11/2013 13:37, "Julien Grall" <julien.grall@linaro.org> wrote:

> On ARM, when an initrd is given to xen by U-boot, it will reserve the memory
> in
> the device tree.
> In this case, when xen decides to free unused memory, dt_unreserved_regions
> will call init_domheap_pages with the start and the end of range equals. But
> the latter assumes that (start > end), if not Xen will hang because the
> number of pages is equals to (unsigned)-1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
> CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

I understand Jan's reservations, but I think just being more liberal here is
fine really.

Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-13 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-13 13:37 [PATCH V3] xen: Check if the range is valid in init_domheap_pages Julien Grall
2013-11-13 14:58 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2013-11-20 16:09 ` Julien Grall
2013-11-20 21:12   ` Keir Fraser

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