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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: correct size of level2_kernel_pgt
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:37:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288373855.8069.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CCB02DC.1010307@goop.org>

On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:22 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 10/29/2010 08:56 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > sizeof(pmd_t *) is 4 bytes on PAE leading to an allocation of only
> > 2048 bytes. The correct size is sizeof(pmd_t) giving us a full page
> > allocation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> > Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
> > ---
> >
> > Applies to mainline since 2.6.36 and to xen.git 2.6.32 based trees
> 
> This is just for 2.6.37?

2.6.36.stable too, I think. I added stable@kernel.org to my patch header
but didn't "guilt refresh" so it didn't show up here.

Ian.

> 
>     J
> 
> >  arch/x86/xen/mmu.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> > index c237b81..21ed8d7 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> > @@ -2126,7 +2126,7 @@ __init pgd_t *xen_setup_kernel_pagetable(pgd_t *pgd,
> >  {
> >  	pmd_t *kernel_pmd;
> >  
> > -	level2_kernel_pgt = extend_brk(sizeof(pmd_t *) * PTRS_PER_PMD, PAGE_SIZE);
> > +	level2_kernel_pgt = extend_brk(sizeof(pmd_t) * PTRS_PER_PMD, PAGE_SIZE);
> >  
> >  	max_pfn_mapped = PFN_DOWN(__pa(xen_start_info->pt_base) +
> >  				  xen_start_info->nr_pt_frames * PAGE_SIZE +
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-29 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-29 15:56 [PATCH] xen: correct size of level2_kernel_pgt Ian Campbell
2010-10-29 16:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-29 17:22 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-29 17:37   ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2010-10-29 17:45     ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-29 17:55       ` Ian Campbell

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