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* [PATCH 3/3] xen: set max_pfn_mapped
@ 2008-06-16 21:54 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  2008-06-20 12:51 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2008-06-16 21:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: the arch/x86 maintainers; +Cc: Yinghai Lu, Linux Kernel Mailing List

We need to set max_pfn_mapped, so do so.  Xen guarantees that at least 512k is
mapped beyond the end of the kernel image, so we can rely on that being present.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1266,6 +1266,7 @@
 
 	init_pg_tables_start = __pa(pgd);
 	init_pg_tables_end = __pa(pgd) + xen_start_info->nr_pt_frames*PAGE_SIZE;
+	max_pfn_mapped = (init_pg_tables_end + 512*1024) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
 	init_mm.pgd = pgd; /* use the Xen pagetables to start */
 



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* Re: [PATCH 3/3] xen: set max_pfn_mapped
  2008-06-16 21:54 [PATCH 3/3] xen: set max_pfn_mapped Jeremy Fitzhardinge
@ 2008-06-20 12:51 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2008-06-20 12:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers, Yinghai Lu, Linux Kernel Mailing List


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> We need to set max_pfn_mapped, so do so.  Xen guarantees that at least 
> 512k is mapped beyond the end of the kernel image, so we can rely on 
> that being present.

applied all three patches to tip/x86/mm-remove-arch-get-ram-range (on 
which it has dependency) - thanks Jeremy.

	Ingo

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