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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: x86@kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	jeremy@goop.org, keir.xen@gmail.com,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:06:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110727130604.GD6713@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6598d164fbe64eeea37c0369b64dd6ceaeeb504.1311736366.git.luto@mit.edu>

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:20:38PM -0400, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Xen needs special treatment for fixmaps.

The description needs a bit more, for example:

"Xen needs to handle the newly introduced VVAR_PAGE introduced by
git commit 9fd67b4ed0714ab718f1f9bd14c344af336a6df7
"x86-64: Give vvars their own page"

Otherwise we die during bootup with this:

<and include snippets of the boot message crash>
"

With that included it looks good to me.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
> Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/xen/mmu.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> index f987bde..8cce339 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> @@ -1916,6 +1916,7 @@ static void xen_set_fixmap(unsigned idx, phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t prot)
>  # endif
>  #else
>  	case VSYSCALL_LAST_PAGE ... VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE:
> +	case VVAR_PAGE:
>  #endif
>  	case FIX_TEXT_POKE0:
>  	case FIX_TEXT_POKE1:
> @@ -1956,7 +1957,8 @@ static void xen_set_fixmap(unsigned idx, phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t prot)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>  	/* Replicate changes to map the vsyscall page into the user
>  	   pagetable vsyscall mapping. */
> -	if (idx >= VSYSCALL_LAST_PAGE && idx <= VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE) {
> +	if ((idx >= VSYSCALL_LAST_PAGE && idx <= VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE) ||
> +	    idx == VVAR_PAGE) {
>  		unsigned long vaddr = __fix_to_virt(idx);
>  		set_pte_vaddr_pud(level3_user_vsyscall, vaddr, pte);
>  	}
> -- 
> 1.7.6

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27  3:20 [PATCH 0/5] Collected vdso/vsyscall fixes for 3.1 Andy Lutomirski
2011-07-27  3:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary Andy Lutomirski
2011-07-27  3:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment Andy Lutomirski
2011-07-27  3:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023 Andy Lutomirski
2011-07-27  3:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping Andy Lutomirski
2011-07-27 13:06   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-07-27 13:48     ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-07-27  3:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op Andy Lutomirski
2011-07-27 17:24   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-07-27 17:45     ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-07-27 12:59 ` [PATCH 0/5] Collected vdso/vsyscall fixes for 3.1 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-27 14:57 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-27 15:04   ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-07-27 15:30     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-27 15:34       ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-07-27 15:43         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-27 16:15           ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-07-27 16:29             ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-27 16:58             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-27 17:05               ` Andrew Lutomirski

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