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From: Roberto De Ioris <roberto@unbit.it>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	jeremy@xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mirko Iannella <mirko@unbit.it>,
	Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: Fix for xen guest with mem > 3.7G
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:43:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1221428593.6036.15.camel@sirius> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48CD22CF.9030900@goop.org>

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 07:42 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> PFN_PHYS() can truncate large addresses unless its passed a suitable
> large type.  This is fixed more generally in the patch series
> introducing phys_addr_t, but we need a short-term fix to solve a
> regression.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
> Cc: roberto@unbit.it
> ---
>  arch/x86/xen/setup.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> ===================================================================
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
>  
>  	e820.nr_map = 0;
>  
> -	e820_add_region(0, PFN_PHYS(max_pfn), E820_RAM);
> +	e820_add_region(0, PFN_PHYS((u64)max_pfn), E820_RAM);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Even though this is normal, usable memory under Xen, reserve


In this way you pass a 64bit integer to the function, but max_pfn in
origin is still 32bit.

max_pfn need to be 64bit to supporto more than 4GB

> 
> 
-- 
Roberto De Ioris
http://unbit.it
JID: roberto@jabber.unbit.it


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-14 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-13 19:16 Fix for xen guest with mem > 3.7G Roberto De Ioris
2008-09-13 21:09 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-14 13:21   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 14:42     ` [PATCH] xen: " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-14 14:47       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 21:43       ` Roberto De Ioris [this message]
2008-09-15  6:09         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-15  6:20           ` Roberto De Ioris

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