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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/x86: Increase xen_e820_map to E820_X_MAX possible entries
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 07:30:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161115063035.GA27089@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479168677-23633-2-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com>


* Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> wrote:

> On systems with sufficiently large e820 tables, and several IOAPICs, it
> is possible for the XENMEM_machine_memory_map callback (and its
> counterpart, XENMEM_memory_map) to attempt to return an e820 table with
> more than 128 entries.  This callback adds entries to the BIOS-provided
> e820 table to account for IOAPIC registers, which, on sufficiently large
> systems, can result in an e820 table that is too large to copy back into
> xen_e820_map.
> 
> This change simply increases the size of xen_e820_map to E820_X_MAX to
> ensure that there is enough room to store the entire e820 map returned
> from this callback.

This means:

 #ifdef CONFIG_EFI
 #include <linux/numa.h>
 #define E820_X_MAX (E820MAX + 3 * MAX_NUMNODES)
 #else   /* ! CONFIG_EFI */
 #define E820_X_MAX E820MAX
 #endif

It's a bit weird to key it off of CONFIG_EFI - why isn't it unconditional?

But I have no objections to the principle if it fixes a crash.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-15  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1479168677-23633-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com>
2016-11-15  0:11 ` [PATCH] xen/x86: Increase xen_e820_map to E820_X_MAX possible entries Alex Thorlton
2016-11-15  6:30   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-11-16 17:16     ` Alex Thorlton
2016-11-16  6:09   ` Juergen Gross
2016-11-16 17:16     ` Alex Thorlton
2016-11-15  6:33 ` [RFC PATCH] " Juergen Gross
     [not found] ` <a03b2e71-cc6a-7f62-6c09-877c576fab80@suse.com>
2016-11-15  7:15   ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]   ` <582AC427020000780011EA7E@suse.com>
2016-11-15  7:36     ` Juergen Gross
     [not found]     ` <a02052dd-83f8-2e6f-2dd3-e7165708225d@suse.com>
2016-11-15  8:01       ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]       ` <582ACEDE020000780011EAC9@suse.com>
2016-11-15  8:42         ` Juergen Gross
     [not found]         ` <478e5d05-ccf6-093e-8301-0eece00ca243@suse.com>
2016-11-15  9:45           ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]           ` <582AE72D020000780011EBB2@suse.com>
2016-11-15  9:55             ` Juergen Gross
     [not found]             ` <4bac3691-f157-4acc-7b29-7c49be6d35d6@suse.com>
2016-11-15 10:44               ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]               ` <582AF51F020000780011ECB4@suse.com>
2016-11-15 11:07                 ` Juergen Gross
     [not found]                 ` <dcaf32d2-9d26-b966-bf94-1ea3e888403c@suse.com>
2016-11-15 11:12                   ` Jan Beulich
2016-11-15 15:22               ` Alex Thorlton
     [not found]               ` <20161115152209.GA67776@stormcage.americas.sgi.com>
2016-11-16  6:06                 ` Juergen Gross
2016-11-16 16:42     ` Juergen Gross
2016-11-16 16:53       ` Alex Thorlton
2016-11-18  0:04         ` Alex Thorlton
2016-11-30  3:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2] " Alex Thorlton
     [not found] ` <1480476287-232878-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com>
2016-11-30  3:24   ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: Make E820_X_MAX unconditionally larger than E820MAX Alex Thorlton
2016-11-30  6:21     ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]     ` <20161130062148.GA11684@gmail.com>
2016-12-01 18:37       ` Alex Thorlton
2016-11-30  3:24   ` [PATCH 2/2] xen/x86: Increase xen_e820_map to E820_X_MAX possible entries Alex Thorlton
     [not found]   ` <1480476287-232878-3-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com>
2016-11-30  5:18     ` Juergen Gross
2016-12-05 17:49 ` [RFC PATCH v3] " Alex Thorlton
     [not found] ` <1480960154-211541-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com>
2016-12-05 17:49   ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: Make E820_X_MAX unconditionally larger than E820MAX Alex Thorlton
2016-12-05 17:49   ` [PATCH 2/2] xen/x86: Increase xen_e820_map to E820_X_MAX possible entries Alex Thorlton
2016-12-08  5:50   ` [RFC PATCH v3] " Juergen Gross
     [not found]   ` <ed498aea-127a-246c-79e8-67ade61ba0ce@suse.com>
2016-12-09  3:46     ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]   ` <1480960154-211541-2-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com>
2016-12-09 10:12     ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: Make E820_X_MAX unconditionally larger than E820MAX Juergen Gross
     [not found]   ` <1480960154-211541-3-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com>
2016-12-09 10:12     ` [PATCH 2/2] xen/x86: Increase xen_e820_map to E820_X_MAX possible entries Juergen Gross

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