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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] xen: Fix oops when mapping/unmapping addr above 1Gb
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:14:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080331131442.GF14636@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206722297-11763-1-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com>


* Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> wrote:

>         In Fedora rawhide we're currently seeing oopses whenever a 
> processes dlopen()s a library which prelink() has previously relocated 
> above 1Gb. Some more details at:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/436453
> 
>         The issue seems to be that during xen_pgd_pin(), we only pin 
> PTE pages, but xen's release_pmd() tries to unpin PMD pages too.
> 
>         The following series of patches is against the latest x86 
> tree.

thanks, i've picked them up to get them tested - but it would be nice to 
have an ack from Jeremy as well. This seems like v2.6.25 material as 
well, right?

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-31 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 16:38 [PATCH 0/3] xen: Fix oops when mapping/unmapping addr above 1Gb Mark McLoughlin
2008-03-28 16:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen: Refactor xen_{alloc,release}_{pte,pmd}() Mark McLoughlin
2008-03-28 16:38   ` [PATCH 2/3] xen: Do not pin/unpin PMD pages Mark McLoughlin
2008-03-28 16:38     ` [PATCH 3/3] xen: Clear PG_pinned in release_{pte,pmd}() Mark McLoughlin
2008-03-28 18:02 ` [PATCH 0/3] xen: Fix oops when mapping/unmapping addr above 1Gb Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-31 13:14 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-03-31 14:55   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-02 14:35     ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-04-02 14:36       ` [PATCH 1/3] xen: Refactor xen_{alloc,release}_{pt,pd}() Mark McLoughlin
2008-04-02 14:36         ` [PATCH 2/3] xen: Do not pin/unpin PMD pages Mark McLoughlin
2008-04-02 14:36           ` [PATCH 3/3] xen: Clear PG_pinned in release_{pt,pd}() Mark McLoughlin

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