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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/xen: Do not clip xen_e820_map to xen_e820_map_entries when sanitizing map
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:04:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5609731A.8030207@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1443436612-23361-1-git-send-email-malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>

On 28/09/15 11:36, Malcolm Crossley wrote:
> Sanitizing the e820 map may produce extra E820 entries which would result in
> the topmost E820 entries being removed. The removed entries would typically
> include the top E820 usable RAM region and thus result in the domain having
> signicantly less RAM available to it.
> 
> Fix by allowing sanitize_e820_map to use the full size of the allocated E820
> array.

Applied to for-linus-4.3b and tagged for stable, thanks.

David
> 
> Signed-off-by: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> index f5ef674..415a55f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void)
>  		xen_ignore_unusable();
>  
>  	/* Make sure the Xen-supplied memory map is well-ordered. */
> -	sanitize_e820_map(xen_e820_map, xen_e820_map_entries,
> +	sanitize_e820_map(xen_e820_map, ARRAY_SIZE(xen_e820_map),
>  			  &xen_e820_map_entries);
>  
>  	max_pages = xen_get_max_pages();
> 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-28 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-28 10:36 [PATCH] x86/xen: Do not clip xen_e820_map to xen_e820_map_entries when sanitizing map Malcolm Crossley
2015-09-28 16:56 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-09-28 17:04 ` David Vrabel [this message]

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