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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: update machine_to_phys_order on resume
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:11:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110712181118.GA18662@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110712164342.GA12867@aepfle.de>

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 06:43:42PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> Migration of pv guests fails, the guest crashes on the target host once the
> guest is unpaused after transit. It happens when the guest is started on a
> small systen, then migrated from that small system to a large system.
> If the guest is started on a large system, then migrated to a small system and
> back to the large system, the migration will be successful.
> 
> The issue is that mfn_to_pfn() makes use of machine_to_phys_order, which
> is only configured once early in the boot process. After migration to a
> large host the mfns will exceed the order from the small system and a
> wrong code path is taken.
> 
> Calling xen_setup_machphys_mapping() again in the resume path will avoid
> the crash.

Oh, duh!

Let me queue that up for 3.0-rc7 unless there are objections?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/xen/mmu.c     |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/xen/suspend.c |    2 ++
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-3.0-rc7/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-3.0-rc7.orig/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> +++ linux-3.0-rc7/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> @@ -1623,7 +1623,7 @@ static void __init xen_map_identity_earl
>  	set_page_prot(pmd, PAGE_KERNEL_RO);
>  }
>  
> -void __init xen_setup_machphys_mapping(void)
> +void xen_setup_machphys_mapping(void)
>  {
>  	struct xen_machphys_mapping mapping;
>  	unsigned long machine_to_phys_nr_ents;
> Index: linux-3.0-rc7/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-3.0-rc7.orig/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c
> +++ linux-3.0-rc7/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ void xen_arch_hvm_post_suspend(int suspe
>  
>  void xen_arch_post_suspend(int suspend_cancelled)
>  {
> +	xen_setup_machphys_mapping();
> +
>  	xen_build_mfn_list_list();
>  
>  	xen_setup_shared_info();
> 
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       reply	other threads:[~2011-07-12 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110701104148.GA32729@aepfle.de>
     [not found] ` <20110712164342.GA12867@aepfle.de>
2011-07-12 18:11   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-07-13  9:12     ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: update machine_to_phys_order on resume Ian Campbell
2011-07-13 13:20       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-15  8:56         ` Jan Beulich
2011-07-15 16:05       ` Jan Beulich
     [not found] <4E1DB9C70200007800072DCC@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
2011-07-14 10:26 ` Olaf Hering
2011-07-15  8:32   ` Jan Beulich
     [not found] <4E20873F020000780007307B@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
2011-07-15 18:23 ` Keir Fraser
2011-07-18  7:05   ` Jan Beulich
2011-07-18  7:27     ` Keir Fraser
2011-07-18  8:31       ` Ian Campbell
2011-07-18  8:47         ` Jan Beulich
2011-07-18  9:05           ` Ian Campbell
2011-07-18  9:50             ` Jan Beulich

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